The existence of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”The existence of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > The existence of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”The existence of men” nth=”3”>God’s revelation > What God reveals > Regarding men > The existence of</topic>)
Ex 4:14 – Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Ex 33:12 – Moses said to the LORD, "See, you say to me, 'Bring up this people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'
Ex 33:17 – And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
Deut 34:10 – And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
2 Sam 7:20 – And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD!
1 Chr 17:18 – And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant.
Ps 139:1 – O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
Ps 144:3 – O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Jer 12:3 – But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Hos 13:5 – It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;
Nah 1:7 – The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Jn 1:48 – Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
1 Cor 8:3 – But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
1 Cor 13:12 – For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Gal 4:9 – But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
2 Tim 2:19 – But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity."
Hearts of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”3”>God searches (test) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>)
Gen 20:6 – Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
1 Chr 28:9 – "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Ps 33:15 – he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
Prov 24:12 – If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Jer 12:3 – But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Lk 16:15 – And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Jn 2:25 – and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
Jn 5:42 – But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.
Acts 1:24 – And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
Acts 15:8 – And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
1 Cor 13:12 – For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1 Jn 3:20 – for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Ways of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”3”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”4”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>)
Gen 18:21 – I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know."
1 Sam 2:3 – Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
2 Kgs 19:27 – "But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
Neh 9:10 – and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.
Job 23:10 – But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
Job 34:25 – Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
Ps 1:6 – for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Ps 33:15 – he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
Ps 139:2 – You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Ps 139:4 – Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
Prov 24:12 – If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Isa 37:28 – "'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
Ezek 11:5 – And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, "Say, Thus says the LORD: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind.
Thoughts of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Thoughts of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Thoughts of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”4”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>)
Josh 22:22 – "The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today
Deut 31:21 – And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give."
Ps 94:11 – the LORD–knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
Ps 139:2 – You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Ps 139:23 – Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
Ezek 11:5 – And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, "Say, Thus says the LORD: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind.
Sins of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”3”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”4”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>)
Job 13:23 – How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Isa 48:4 – Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
Isa 48:8 – You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
Jer 18:23 – Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Hos 5:3 – I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.
Amos 5:12 – For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins–you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
Intentions of men
Jer 18:23 – Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Mt 12:15 – Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all
Mt 22:18 – But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
Mt 26:10 – But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
Jn 6:15 – Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Pride and vanity of men
Job 11:11 – For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
Ps 94:11 – the LORD–knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
Ps 138:6 – For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
1 Cor 3:20 – and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."
End of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”End of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > End of men</topic>)
Ps 1:6 – for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Ps 37:18 – The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever;
Prov 24:12 – If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Jer 48:30 – I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.
Encounters of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Encounters of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Encounters of men</topic>)
Deut 2:7 – For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."'
Ps 37:18 – The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever;
Jer 15:15 – O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.
Judgment of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Judgment of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Judgment of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Judgments of men” nth=”1”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding men > Judgments of men</topic>)
Mk 2:8 – And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question these things in your hearts?
Mk 8:17 – And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
Lk 5:22 – When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts?
Sufferings of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sufferings of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Sufferings of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Afflictions of men” nth=”1”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding men > Afflictions of men</topic>)
Ex 2:25 – God saw the people of Israel–and God knew.
Ex 3:7 – Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
Characters of men
Isa 48:4 – Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
Isa 48:8 – You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
Men’s love for God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men’s love for God” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Men’s love for God</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men’s love for God” nth=”3”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding men > Men’s love for God</topic>)
Jn 21:17 – He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
1 Cor 8:3 – But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
Ability of men
Ex 4:14 – Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Innocence of men
Job 10:7 – although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
Self-righteousness of men
Lk 16:15 – And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Doubts of men
Jn 16:19 – Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'?
Regarding God
Men who belong to God
Nah 1:7 – The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Jn 10:14 – I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
Jn 10:15 – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Jn 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
1 Cor 8:3 – But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
1 Cor 13:12 – For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Gal 4:9 – But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
2 Tim 2:19 – But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity."
God
Mt 11:27 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Lk 10:22 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 10:15 – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
God’s plan
Jer 29:11 – For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Lk 10:22 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
1 Cor 2:11 – For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Christ
Mt 11:27 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Lk 10:22 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Jn 10:15 – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Regarding all things
The development of all things
Gen 3:5 – For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Gen 3:22 – Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever–"
Ex 3:19 – But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.
Deut 31:21 – And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give."
Jer 48:30 – I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.
Ezek 37:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, you know."
The standard of good and evil
Gen 3:5 – For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Gen 3:22 – Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever–"
The essence of all things
Ps 50:11 – I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
Ps 103:14 – For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
Things in secret (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Secret things” nth=”1”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding things > Secret things</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”3”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>)
Mk 5:30 – And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, "Who touched my garments?"
Lk 8:46 – But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me."
Facts (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Facts” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding all things > Facts</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Facts” nth=”3”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding all things > Facts</topic>)
Jn 4:1 – Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
Jn 5:6 – When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
Where wisdom is (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Where wisdom is” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding all things > Where wisdom is</topic>)
Job 28:23 – "God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
Results of God’s knowing
Jesus asks questions (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Jesus asks questions” nth=”2”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Jesus asks questions</topic>)
Mt 22:18 – But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
Mt 26:10 – But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
Mk 2:8 – And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question these things in your hearts?
Mk 8:17 – And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
Lk 5:22 – When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts?
Jn 5:6 – When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
Jn 16:19 – Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'?
Men are repaid according to their work (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”1”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Punished by God</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”2”>God searches (tests) > Results of God’s searching (testing) > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”For punishment” nth=”1”>God reveals > Purposes of God’s revelation > For punishment</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”2”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Punished by God</topic>)
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
1 Chr 28:9 – "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Job 34:25 – Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
Prov 24:12 – If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Jesus leaving (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Withdraws” nth=”1”>God hears > Results of Jesus’s hearing > Withdraws</topic>)
Mt 12:15 – Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all
Jn 6:15 – Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
God receiving glory
Neh 9:10 – and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.
Receive rewards (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Receive rewards” nth=”2”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Receive rewards</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”For reward” nth=”1”>God reveals > Purposes of God’s revelation > For reward</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Rewarded by God” nth=”1”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Rewarded by God</topic>)
Ps 37:18 – The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever;
Be consecrated by God
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
God bears witness to men
Acts 15:8 – And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
God sees
What does God see
Regarding men
Sufferings of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sufferings of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Sufferings of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Afflictions of men of men” nth=”1”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding men > Afflictions of men</topic>)
Gen 29:31 – When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Gen 29:32 – And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me."
Gen 31:12 – And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
Gen 31:42 – If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."
Ex 3:7 – Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
Ex 3:9 – And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Ex 3:16 – Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,
Ex 4:31 – And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Deut 26:7 – Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
Deut 32:36 – For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
2 Sam 16:12 – It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today."
2 Kgs 14:26 – For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
2 Kgs 20:5 – "Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD,
Neh 9:9 – "And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,
Ps 10:14 – But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
Ps 31:7 – I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,
Ps 106:44 – Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
Ps 138:6 – For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
Isa 38:5 – "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Mt 9:36 – When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Mk 6:34 – When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Mk 6:48 – And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,
Lk 7:13 – And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."
Lk 13:12 – When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability."
Acts 7:34 – I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
Rev 2:9 – "'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Sins of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”3”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”4”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>)
Gen 6:5 – The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 6:12 – And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Deut 32:19 – "The LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Job 11:11 – For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
Ps 139:24 – And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Isa 58:3 – 'Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
Isa 59:15 – Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Isa 59:16 – He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.
Jer 3:8 – She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
Jer 7:11 – Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD.
Jer 13:27 – I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"
Ezek 16:50 – They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
Jer 23:13 – In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
Jer 23:14 – But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah."
Ezek 23:13 – And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
Hos 6:10 – In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.
Hos 9:10 – Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
Amos 5:22 – Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.
Hab 1:3 – Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
Hab 1:13 – You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and are silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Rev 2:9 – "'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Rev 2:13 – "'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Rev 3:1 – "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars."'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Rev 3:15 – "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!
The existence of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”The existence of men nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > The existence of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”The existence of men” nth=”3”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > The existence of men</topic>)
1 Chr 17:17 – And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O LORD God!
Ps 33:13 – The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
Ps 33:14 – from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
Jer 12:3 – But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Ezek 16:6 – "And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'
Ezek 16:8 – "When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
Mt 4:18 – While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Mt 4:21 – And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.
Mt 9:9 – As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
Mt 9:22 – Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.
Mk 1:16 – Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Mk 1:19 – And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.
Mk 2:14 – And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
Lk 5:27 – After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, "Follow me."
Jn 1:47 – Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"
Jn 1:48 – Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
Jn 1:50 – Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these."
Righteousness of men
Gen 7:1 – Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Num 23:21 – He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.
Job 33:26 – then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
Jer 12:3 – But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Mt 6:4 – so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:6 – But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:18 – that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
2 Cor 11:31 – The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
Rev 2:2 – "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
Rev 2:13 – "'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Rev 2:19 – "'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
Rev 3:8 – "'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
Rev 7:14 – I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Ways of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”3”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”4”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>)
Gen 11:5 – And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Gen 18:21 – I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know."
1 Sam 15:2 – Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
Job 7:18 – visit him every morning and test him every moment?
Job 31:4 – Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
Job 34:21 – "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
Ps 17:3 – You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Isa 57:18 – I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
Isa 58:3 – 'Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
Jer 32:19 – great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Jon 3:10 – When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Mt 9:23 – And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,
Mk 12:34 – And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.
Hearts of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”1”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”3”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>)
1 Sam 16:7 – But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."
Ps 17:3 – You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Ps 139:24 – And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Jer 12:3 – But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Jer 20:12 – O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Mt 9:4 – But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Mt 22:16 – And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.
Mk 12:14 – And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"
Jn 1:47 – Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"
Jn 8:37 – I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
Rom 8:27 – And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
2 Cor 11:11 – And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
Needs of men
Mt 6:8 – Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Mt 6:32 – For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Mt 14:14 – When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Mk 6:34 – When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Lk 7:13 – And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."
Lk 11:17 – But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.
Lk 13:12 – When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability."
Lk 17:14 – When he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cleansed.
Jn 5:6 – When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
Rev 2:9 – "'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Plots of men
Ps 10:14 – But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
Lam 3:60 – You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
Hab 1:3 – Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
Hab 1:13 – You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and are silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Jn 6:64 – But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Jn 8:37 – I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
Jn 13:11 – For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."
Thoughts of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Thoughts of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Thoughts of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”3”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>)
Prov 24:18 – lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
Mt 9:4 – But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Mt 12:25 – Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
Mk 12:15 – But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."
Lk 6:8 – But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come and stand here." And he rose and stood there.
Lk 11:17 – But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.
Jn 6:64 – But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
End of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”End of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > End of men</topic>)
Deut 32:20 – And he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Ps 37:13 – but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.
Isa 18:4 – For thus the LORD said to me: "I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
Jer 30:6 – Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?
Jer 46:5 – Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste; they look not back–terror on every side! declares the LORD.
Faith of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Marvels at a person’s faith” nth=”1”>God hears > Results of Jesus’ hearing > Marvels at a person’s faith</topic>)
Mt 9:2 – And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven."
Mt 9:22 – Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.
Mk 2:5 – And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."
Lk 5:20 – And when he saw their faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
Weaknesses of men
Mk 8:33 – But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."
Mk 10:14 – But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
Lk 18:24 – Jesus, looking at him with sadness, said, "How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
Jn 11:33 – When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.
Perverseness of men
Ex 32:9 – And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Deut 9:13 – "Furthermore, the LORD said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.
Deut 32:20 – And he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Repentance of men
1 Chr 21:15 – And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chr 12:7 – When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Jon 3:10 – When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Men’s love for God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men’s love for God” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Men’s love for God</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men’s love for God” nth=”3”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding men > Men’s love for God</topic>)
Jn 21:15 – When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
Jn 21:16 – He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
Jn 21:17 – He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
Judgment of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Judgment of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Judgment of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Judgments of men” nth=”1”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding men > Judgments of men</topic>)
Lk 9:47 – But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side
Jn 6:61 – But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this?
Value of men
Hos 9:13 – Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
Encounters of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Encounters of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Encounters of men</topic>)
Mt 8:14 – And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.
Unbelief of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Lack of faith” nth=”1”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding men > Lack of faith</topic>)
Jn 6:64 – But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Regarding God
Household that God chooses
Zech 9:8 – Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes.
Jn 16:22 – So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
Jn 13:18 – I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.'
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
Spirit of God
Zech 9:8 – Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes.
Jn 16:22 – So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
Jn 13:18 – I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.'
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
Covenant of God
Gen 9:16 – When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
Ps 74:20 – Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
A sign of God
Ex 12:13 – The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Ex 12:23 – For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
The date of God
Mt 24:36 – "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Mk 13:32 – "But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
The words of God
Jn 7:15 – The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?"
Jn 12:50 – And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."
The anointed of God
Ps 84:9 – Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!
What does Christ see
Knowledge of the Father
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
Jn 4:22 – You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Jn 5:19 – So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Jn 6:46 – not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Jn 8:38 – I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."
Jn 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."
Rom 8:27 – And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
1 Cor 2:11 – For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Things the Father does
Jn 5:19 – So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Jn 6:6 – He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Jn 18:4 – Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
Jn 19:28 – After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst."
Place where He comes from
Jn 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Place where He is going
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
The hour
Jn 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Regarding all things
Facts (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Facts” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding all things > Facts</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Facts” nth=”3”>God hears > What does God hear > Regarding all things > Facts</topic>)
Mt 8:18 – Now when Jesus saw a great crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side.
Mt 9:23 – And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,
Mt 21:19 – And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.
Mk 5:38 – They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
Mk 9:14 – And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.
Mk 11:13 – And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Mk 12:41 – And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.
Lk 5:2 – and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
Lk 21:1 – Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box,
Lk 21:2 – and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
Jn 1:38 – Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, "What are you seeking?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"
Jn 5:6 – When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
Jn 6:5 – Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?"
Jn 9:1 – As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
Jn 11:33 – When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.
Jn 18:4 – Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
Jn 19:26 – When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"
Everything under heaven
Job 28:24 – For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
Ps 33:13 – The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
Ps 33:14 – from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Ps 102:19 – that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
Zech 4:10 – For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel."These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth."
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God."
Spiritual matters
Mk 8:33 – But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."
Mk 9:25 – And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."
Lk 10:18 – And he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
1 Cor 2:11 – For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
2 Cor 12:2 – I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
2 Cor 12:3 – And I know that this man was caught up into paradise–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows–
Where wisdom is (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Where wisdom is” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding all things > Where wisdom is</topic>)
Job 28:27 – then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
Things in secret (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”3”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>)
Jer 23:24 – Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Results of God’s seeing
Blessed by God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Blessed by God” nth=”2”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Blessed by God</topic>)
Gen 29:31 – When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Gen 29:32 – And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me."
Gen 31:42 – If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."
Ex 3:16 – Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,
Ex 4:31 – And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Deut 32:36 – For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
2 Sam 16:12 – It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today."
2 Kgs 20:5 – "Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD,
Neh 9:9 – "And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,
Ps 10:14 – But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
Ps 106:44 – Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
Isa 38:5 – "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Isa 57:18 – I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
Mt 9:2 – And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven."
Mt 9:9 – As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
Mt 9:22 – Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.
Mt 9:36 – When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Mt 14:14 – When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Mk 2:14 – And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
Mk 6:34 – When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Mk 6:48 – And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,
Lk 7:13 – And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."
Lk 13:12 – When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability."
Lk 17:14 – When he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cleansed.
Jn 11:33 – When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.
Jn 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Acts 7:34 – I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
Saved by God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Saved by God” nth=”2”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Saved by God</topic>)
Gen 7:1 – Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Gen 9:16 – When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
Ex 12:13 – The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Ex 12:23 – For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
1 Chr 21:15 – And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chr 12:7 – When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
Displeases God
Deut 32:19 – "The LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Prov 24:18 – lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
Isa 59:15 – Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Isa 59:16 – He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.
Jer 13:27 – I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"
Mk 8:33 – But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."
Mk 10:14 – But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
Punished by God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”2”>God searches (tests) > Results of God’s searching (testing) > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”For punishment” nth=”1”>God reveals > Purposes of God’s revelation > For punishment</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”2”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Punished by God</topic>)
Ps 10:14 – But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
Ps 37:13 – but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.
Jer 32:19 – great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Ezek 16:50 – They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
Mt 21:19 – And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.
Mk 11:13 – And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
Jesus asks questions (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Jesus asks questions” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Jesus asks questions</topic>)
Mt 9:4 – But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Mk 12:15 – But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."
Lk 6:8 – But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come and stand here." And he rose and stood there.
Lk 9:47 – But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side
Lk 11:17 – But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.
Jn 6:61 – But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this?
God relents
Deut 32:36 – For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
1 Chr 21:15 – And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Jon 3:10 – When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Receive rewards (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Receive rewards” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Receive rewards</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”For reward” nth=”1”>God reveals > Purposes of God’s revelation > For reward</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Rewarded by God” nth=”1”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Rewarded by God</topic>)
Mt 6:4 – so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:6 – But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:18 – that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Forgiveness by Jesus
Mt 9:2 – And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven."
Mk 2:5 – And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."
Lk 5:20 – And when he saw their faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
Testimony from Jesus
Jn 3:11 – Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
Jn 12:50 – And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."
Fulfillment of prophecy by Jesus
Jn 18:4 – Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
Jn 19:28 – After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst."
Be pleased
Zech 4:10 – For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel."These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth."
Reason Jesus knows God
Because He comes from God
Jn 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Jn 6:46 – not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Jn 8:38 – I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."
God searches (tests)
What does God search (test)
Regarding men
Hearts of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>)
1 Chr 29:17 – I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.
Ps 7:9 – Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous–you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
Ps 17:3 – You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Ps 26:2 – Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
Ps 38:9 – O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Ps 66:10 – For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
Ps 139:23 – Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
Prov 17:3 – The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Jer 12:3 – But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Jer 17:10 – "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
Jer 20:12 – O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Ps 38:9 – O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
1 Thess 2:4 – but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Rom 8:27 – And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
The righteous
Job 7:18 – visit him every morning and test him every moment?
Job 23:10 – But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
Job 34:36 – Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
Ps 11:5 – The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
Jer 20:12 – O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Sins of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”4”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>)
Job 10:6 – that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
Job 34:22 – There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Ps 19:12 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Prov 20:8 – A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.
Jer 16:17 – For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Ways of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”4”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>)
Ps 139:1 – O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
Ps 139:3 – You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Jer 16:17 – For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Innocence of men
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Work of men
1 Cor 3:13 – each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
Apostles
1 Thess 2:4 – but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Regarding God
Depths of God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hidden things” nth=”1”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding God > Hidden things</topic>)
1 Cor 2:10 – these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Regarding things
Secret things (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”3”>God reveals > What does God reveal > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>)
Deut 29:29 – "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Job 13:9 – Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Job 28:27 – then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
Ps 19:12 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Ps 44:21 – would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Prov 25:2 – It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Isa 29:15 – Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Jer 16:17 – For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Jer 23:24 – Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Zeph 1:12 – At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'
Amos 9:3 – If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Place
Ezek 20:6 – On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.
How does God search (test)
Time
Every moment
Job 7:18 – visit him every morning and test him every moment?
Morning
Job 7:18 – visit him every morning and test him every moment?
Night
Ps 17:3 – You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Means
Through fire
Job 23:10 – But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
Ps 17:3 – You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Ps 26:2 – Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
Ps 66:10 – For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
Ps 139:23 – Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
Prov 17:3 – The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.
Jer 9:7 – Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
Zech 13:9 – And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"
1 Cor 3:13 – each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
Through events
Ps 81:7 – In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Through lamps
Zeph 1:12 – At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'
Reasons God searches (tests)
Out of His righteousness
Ps 7:9 – Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous–you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
Jer 9:7 – Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
He knows the hearts of men
Ps 44:21 – would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
He fills heaven and earth
Jer 23:24 – Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Results of God’s searching (testing)
Sanctification
Job 23:10 – But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
Ps 19:12 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Prov 20:8 – A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.
Prov 20:26 – A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them.
Jer 9:7 – Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
Men are repaid according to their work (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”1”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Punished by God</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”For punishment” nth=”1”>God reveals > Purposes of God’s revelation > For punishment</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”2”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Punished by God</topic>)
Jer 17:10 – "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
Jer 20:12 – O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Ezek 21:13 – For it will not be a testing–what could it do if you despise the rod?" declares the Lord GOD.
Zeph 1:12 – At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Facts are revealed
Job 13:9 – Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Zeph 1:12 – At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'
1 Cor 3:13 – each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
Men return back to God
Zech 13:9 – And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"
God reveals
What does God reveal
Regarding men
Sins of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sins of men” nth=”3”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Sins of men</topic>)
Job 20:27 – The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
Job 34:22 – There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Ps 69:5 – O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
Ps 90:8 – You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Isa 26:21 – For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Isa 47:3 – Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.
Jer 49:10 – But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Lam 4:22 – The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.
Hos 5:3 – I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.
Ways of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Ways of men” nth=”3”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding men > Ways of men</topic>)
Hos 5:3 – I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Cor 5:11 – Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
1 Tim 5:25 – So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden.
Hearts of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Hearts of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Hearts of men</topic>)
Ps 69:5 – O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
1 Cor 14:25 – the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
Things that belong to us
Deut 29:29 – "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
The existence of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”The existence of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > The existence of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”The existence of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > The existence of men</topic>)
Ps 139:15 – My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Regarding all things
Things in secret (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Things in secret” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding all things > Things in secret</topic>)
2 Sam 12:12 – For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'"
Job 13:10 – He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
Ps 101:5 – Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
Ps 139:15 – My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Prov 25:2 – It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Eccl 12:14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 29:15 – Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Isa 45:3 – I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
Dan 2:22 – he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
Mt 6:4 – so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:6 – But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 10:26 – "So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
Mk 4:22 – For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.
Lk 8:17 – For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
Lk 12:2 – Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Eph 5:13 – But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,
1 Tim 5:25 – So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden.
1 Pet 3:4 – but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
Hidden places
Deut 7:20 – Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
1 Sam 10:22 – So they inquired again of the LORD, "Is there a man still to come?" and the LORD said, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage."
Jer 23:24 – Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Jer 49:10 – But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Ezek 13:14 – And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Mic 1:6 – Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.
Regarding God
Hidden things (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Depths of God” nth=”1”>God searches (tests) > What does God search (test) > Regarding God > Depths of God</topic>)
Dan 2:22 – he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
Mt 11:25 – At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
Mt 13:35 – This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
Lk 10:21 – In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Lk 18:34 – But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
Lk 19:42 – saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Eph 3:9 – and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things,
Col 1:26 – the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Rev 2:17 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
Purposes of God’s revelation
For judgment
Job 13:10 – He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
Ps 69:5 – O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
Ps 90:8 – You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Eccl 12:14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Jer 16:17 – For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Hos 5:3 – I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
2 Cor 5:11 – Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
Eph 5:13 – But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,
1 Tim 5:25 – So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden.
For punishment (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”1”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Punished by God</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”2”>God searches (tests) > Results of God’s searching (testing) > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”2”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Punished by God</topic>)
Deut 7:20 – Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
2 Sam 12:12 – For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'"
Ps 101:5 – Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
Isa 26:21 – For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Isa 47:3 – Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.
Jer 49:10 – But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Lam 4:22 – The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.
Ezek 13:14 – And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Amos 9:3 – If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Mic 1:6 – Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.
For reward (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Receive rewards” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Receive rewards</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Receive rewards” nth=”2”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Receive rewards</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Rewarded by God” nth=”1”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Rewarded by God</topic>)
Isa 45:3 – I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
Mt 6:4 – so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:6 – But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 11:25 – At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
Mt 13:35 – This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
1 Pet 3:4 – but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
Rev 2:17 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
For salvation
Mt 11:25 – At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
Mt 13:35 – This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
Lk 10:21 – In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Eph 3:9 – and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things,
Col 1:26 – the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Rev 2:17 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
For godliness
1 Cor 14:25 – the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
How does God reveal
Through parables
Mt 11:25 – At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
Mt 13:35 – This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
Lk 10:21 – In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Through judgment of Christ
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Through the gospel
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Eph 3:9 – and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things,
Col 1:26 – the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
God hears
What does God hear
Regarding men
Prayers of men
Deut 26:7 – Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
2 Sam 22:7 – "In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
2 Kgs 19:20 – Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2 Kgs 20:5 – "Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD,
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
2 Chr 7:12 – Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
Neh 9:9 – "And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,
Ps 6:9 – The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD accepts my prayer.
Ps 10:17 – O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
Ps 18:6 – In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
Ps 22:24 – For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
Ps 28:6 – Blessed be the LORD! for he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
Ps 34:17 – When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Ps 65:2 – O you who hears prayer, to you shall all flesh come.
Ps 66:19 – But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Ps 106:44 – Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
Isa 30:19 – For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.
Isa 38:5 – "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Jn 9:31 – We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Jn 11:41 – So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
Jn 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."
1 Jn 5:14 – And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 Jn 5:15 – And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
Afflictions of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sufferings of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Sufferings of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Sufferings of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Sufferings of men</topic>)
Gen 16:11 – And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.
Gen 21:17 – And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Gen 29:33 – She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.
Gen 30:6 – Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.
Ex 2:24 – And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Ex 3:7 – Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
Ex 6:5 – Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
Ex 22:23 – If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,
Num 20:16 – And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
Deut 26:7 – Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
Job 34:28 – so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted–
Ps 6:8 – Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
Ps 22:24 – For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
Ps 69:33 – For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
Ps 106:44 – Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
Isa 30:19 – For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.
Acts 7:34 – I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
Grumblings of men
Ex 16:7 – and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?"
Ex 16:8 – And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him–what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD."
Ex 16:9 – Then Moses said to Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, 'Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.'"
Ex 16:12 – "I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'"
Num 11:1 – And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.
Num 12:2 – And they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.
Num 14:27 – "How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
Mockings of men
2 Kgs 19:4 – It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."
Ps 55:19 – God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.
Isa 37:4 – It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
Ezek 35:12 – And you shall know that I am the LORD."I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.'
Ezek 35:13 – And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.
Zeph 2:8 – "I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
Lack of faith (See <topic id=”533” startswith=”Unbelief of men” nth=”1”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Unbelief of men</topic>)
Deut 1:34 – "And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and he swore,
Ps 78:21 – Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,
Ps 78:59 – When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Promise of men
Deut 5:28 – "And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.
Ps 61:5 – For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
Unrighteousness of men
Jer 8:6 – I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Lam 3:61 – "You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.
Men’s love for God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men’s love for God” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Men’s love for God</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men’s love for God” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Men’s love for God</topic>)
Mal 3:16 – Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.
Mt 21:16 – and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?"
Judgments of men (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Judgment of men” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding men > Judgment of men</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Judgment of men” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Judgment of men</topic>)
Mt 9:12 – But when he heard it, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
Mk 2:17 – And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
False prophecy of men
Jer 23:25 – I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'
Lack of peace
Jer 30:5 – "Thus says the LORD: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.
Regarding God
Teachings from the law
Lk 2:46 – After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Regarding all things
Facts (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Facts” nth=”1”>God knows > What does God know > Regarding all things > Facts</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Facts” nth=”2”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding all things > Facts</topic>)
Mt 4:12 – Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.
Mt 14:13 – Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
Mt 27:13 – Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?"
Jn 9:35 – Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
Jn 11:4 – But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
Jn 11:6 – So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
Results of God’s hearing
Blessed by God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Blessed by God” nth=”1”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Blessed by God</topic>)
Gen 16:11 – And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.
Gen 21:17 – And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Gen 29:33 – She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.
Gen 30:6 – Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.
Ps 106:44 – Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
Isa 30:19 – For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.
Isa 38:5 – "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Angered God
Num 11:1 – And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.
Deut 1:34 – "And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and he swore,
2 Kgs 19:4 – It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Ps 78:21 – Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,
Ps 78:59 – When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Isa 37:4 – It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
Saved by God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Saved by God” nth=”1”>God hears > Results of God’s hearing > Saved by God</topic>)
Ps 34:17 – When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Acts 7:34 – I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
2 Cor 6:2 – For he says, "In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you."Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
God remembering His covenant
Ex 2:24 – And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Ex 6:5 – Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
Punished by God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Punished by God” nth=”1”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Punished by God</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Men are repaid according to their work” nth=”2”>God searches (tests) > Results of God’s searching (testing) > Men are repaid according to their work</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”For punishment” nth=”1”>God reveals > Purposes of God’s revelation > For punishment</topic>)
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
Ps 55:19 – God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.
Rewarded by God (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Receive rewards” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Receive rewards</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”Receive rewards” nth=”2”>God sees > Results of God’s seeing > Receive rewards</topic>; <topic id=”558” startswith=”For reward” nth=”1”>God reveals > Purposes of God’s revelation > For reward</topic>）
Ps 61:5 – For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
1 Jn 5:15 – And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
Results of Jesus’ hearing
Encourages
Lk 8:50 – But Jesus on hearing this answered him, "Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well."
Lk 18:22 – When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
Jn 11:4 – But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
Speaks the truth
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
Jn 8:40 – but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
Jn 15:15 – No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Withdraws (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Jesus leaving” nth=”1”>God knows > Results of God’s knowing > Jesus leaving</topic>)
Mt 4:12 – Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.
Mt 14:13 – Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
Marvels at a person’s faith (See <topic id=”558” startswith=”Faith of men” nth=”1”>God sees > What does God see > Regarding men > Faith of men</topic>)
Mt 8:10 – When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, "Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.
Lk 7:9 – When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith."
Judges
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Characteristics of God’s omniscience
Transcendence
Transcends limitations of time
Omniscience of the past
1 Sam 15:2 – Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
Ps 31:7 – I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,
Eccl 3:15 – That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Isa 41:26 – Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
Jer 13:27 – I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"
Hos 13:5 – It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Rev 2:2 – "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
Rev 2:9 – "'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Rev 2:13 – "'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Rev 2:19 – "'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
Rev 3:1 – "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars."'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Rev 3:8 – "'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
Rev 3:15 – "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!
Rev 7:14 – I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Omniscience of the future
Ps 37:13 – but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.
Ps 37:18 – The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever;
Eccl 3:15 – That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Mt 6:8 – Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Lk 19:41 – And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,
Jn 1:48 – Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
Jn 6:64 – But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Jn 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Jn 13:3 – Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Jn 13:11 – For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."
Jn 13:18 – I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.'
Jn 16:22 – So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
Jn 18:4 – Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
Transcends limitations of space
Gen 6:5 – The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 6:12 – And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Gen 11:5 – And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Gen 18:21 – I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know."
Gen 20:6 – Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
2 Sam 22:7 – "In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Job 28:24 – For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
Ps 11:4 – The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test, the children of man.
Ps 18:6 – In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
Ps 33:13 – The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
Ps 33:14 – from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
Ps 102:19 – that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
Ps 138:6 – For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
Ps 139:2 – You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Isa 26:21 – For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Jer 23:24 – Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Zech 4:10 – For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel."These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth."
Mt 6:4 – so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:6 – But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:18 – that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Jn 1:48 – Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
Transcends men’s abilities
1 Sam 16:7 – But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."
2 Sam 12:12 – For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'"
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Job 10:4 – Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?
Job 13:23 – How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Ps 139:15 – My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Isa 41:26 – Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
Isa 41:28 – But when I look there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.
Jer 23:24 – Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Lk 10:22 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Jn 1:48 – Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
1 Cor 2:11 – For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
1 Cor 13:12 – For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
2 Cor 12:2 – I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
2 Cor 12:3 – And I know that this man was caught up into paradise–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows–
The only one
Only one who knows the heavenly father
Mt 11:27 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Jn 6:46 – not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Jn 7:29 – I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."
Jn 8:38 – I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."
Jn 8:55 – But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
Only one who knows the mystery
Lk 10:21 – In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Lk 18:34 – But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
Lk 19:42 – saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Jn 8:14 – Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Rev 2:17 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
Only one who knows the hearts of men
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
2 Cor 12:2 – I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
2 Cor 12:3 – And I know that this man was caught up into paradise–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows–
Only one that knows the Son
Mt 11:27 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Lk 10:22 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Only one that knows that day
Mt 24:36 – "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Mk 13:32 – "But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
All encompassing
Knows all things
1 Sam 2:3 – Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
1 Sam 15:2 – Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
Job 20:27 – The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
Job 36:4 – For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
Ps 50:11 – I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
Ps 69:5 – O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
Ps 139:3 – You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Ps 139:4 – Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
Ps 139:15 – My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Jer 18:23 – Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Ezek 11:5 – And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, "Say, Thus says the LORD: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind.
Dan 2:22 – he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
Mt 6:32 – For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God."
Jn 18:4 – Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
Jn 21:17 – He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
Rom 16:27 – to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
1 Cor 13:12 – For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1 Jn 3:20 – for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Searches all things
1 Chr 28:9 – "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Job 11:11 – For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
Job 34:22 – There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Ps 17:3 – You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Ps 33:14 – from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
Ps 33:15 – he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
Ps 38:9 – O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Ps 90:8 – You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Ps 139:2 – You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Ps 139:3 – You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Eccl 12:14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isa 29:15 – Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Jer 16:17 – For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Jer 23:24 – Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
Hos 5:3 – I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.
Amos 9:3 – If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Zech 4:10 – For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel."These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth."
1 Cor 3:13 – each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
Eph 5:13 – But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,
Sees all things
Gen 6:5 – The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 6:12 – And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Gen 31:12 – And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
Job 11:11 – For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
Ps 10:14 – But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
Ps 33:13 – The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
Jer 7:11 – Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD.
Jer 13:27 – I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"
Jer 32:19 – great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Lam 3:60 – You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
Hears all things
Ex 16:8 – And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him–what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD."
Num 14:27 – "How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
Deut 5:28 – "And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.
2 Kgs 19:4 – It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."
Ezek 35:12 – And you shall know that I am the LORD."I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.'
Ezek 35:13 – And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.
1 Jn 5:15 – And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
Heb 9:14 – how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Eternal life, living God
Gen 21:33 – Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Num 14:21 – But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD,
Num 14:28 – Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
Deut 5:26 – For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?
Deut 32:40 – For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,
Josh 3:10 – And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Judg 8:19 – And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you."
Ruth 3:13 – Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning."
1 Sam 14:39 – For as the LORD lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
1 Sam 14:45 – Then the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.
1 Sam 17:26 – And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
1 Sam 17:36 – Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God."
1 Sam 19:6 – And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, "As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death."
1 Sam 20:3 – But David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
1 Sam 25:26 – Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, because the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
1 Sam 25:34 – For as surely as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male."
1 Sam 26:10 – And David said, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
1 Sam 26:16 – This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head."
1 Sam 28:10 – But Saul swore to her by the LORD, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing."
1 Sam 29:6 – Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.
2 Sam 2:27 – And Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning."
2 Sam 4:9 – But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
2 Sam 12:5 – Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,
2 Sam 14:11 – Then she said, "Please let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."
2 Sam 15:21 – But Ittai answered the king, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be."
2 Sam 22:47 – "The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,
1 Kgs 2:24 – Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day."
1 Kgs 17:1 – Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."
1 Kgs 17:12 – And she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die."
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
1 Kgs 18:15 – And Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
1 Kgs 22:14 – But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak."
2 Kgs 2:2 – And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
2 Kgs 2:4 – Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.
2 Kgs 2:6 – Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on.
2 Kgs 3:14 – And Elisha said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.
2 Kgs 4:30 – Then the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her.
2 Kgs 5:16 – But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
2 Kgs 5:20 – Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him."
2 Kgs 19:4 – It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."
2 Kgs 19:16 – Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
2 Chr 18:13 – But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak."
Job 19:25 – For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
Job 27:2 – "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Ps 18:46 – The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation–
Ps 42:2 – My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Ps 84:2 – My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Ps 133:3 – It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Isa 37:4 – It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
Isa 37:17 – Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
Isa 49:18 – Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, declares the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament; you shall bind them on as a bride does.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 5:2 – Though they say, "As the LORD lives," yet they swear falsely.
Jer 12:16 – And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
Jer 16:14 – "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'
Jer 16:15 – but 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.
Jer 22:24 – "As I live, declares the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
Jer 23:7 – "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they shall no longer say, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'
Jer 23:8 – but 'As the LORD lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' Then they shall dwell in their own land."
Jer 23:36 – But 'the burden of the LORD' you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.
Jer 38:16 – Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, "As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life."
Jer 44:26 – Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, 'As the Lord GOD lives.'
Jer 46:18 – "As I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
Ezek 5:11 – Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
Ezek 14:16 – even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
Ezek 14:18 – though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
Ezek 14:20 – even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
Ezek 16:48 – As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezek 17:16 – "As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.
Ezek 17:19 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.
Ezek 18:3 – As I live, declares the Lord GOD, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.
Ezek 20:3 – "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezek 20:31 – When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezek 20:33 – "As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will be king over you.
Ezek 33:11 – Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezek 33:27 – Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.
Ezek 34:8 – As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,
Ezek 35:6 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.
Ezek 35:11 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.
Dan 12:7 – And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.
Hos 1:10 – Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God."
Hos 4:15 – Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the LORD lives."
Amos 8:14 – Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, 'As your god lives, O Dan,' and, 'As the Way of Beersheba lives,' they shall fall, and never rise again."
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Mt 16:16 – Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mt 26:63 – But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Acts 14:15 – "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
Rom 14:11 – for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
2 Cor 3:3 – And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Cor 6:16 – What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
1 Tim 4:10 – For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
Heb 3:12 – Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Heb 9:14 – how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Heb 10:31 – It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Heb 12:22 – But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
1 Jn 5:20 – And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Rev 1:18 – and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Rev 4:9 – And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
Rev 4:10 – the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Rev 7:2 – Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,
Rev 10:6 – and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,
Rev 15:7 – And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,
Eternal existence
God existed before the world
Gen 1:1 – In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Ps 90:2 – Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Ps 93:2 – Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
Ps 102:25 – Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Prov 8:22 – "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
Prov 8:23 – Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
Prov 8:24 – When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
Prov 8:25 – Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,
Prov 8:26 – before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
Eccl 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Isa 46:9 – remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
Mic 5:2 – But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
Jn 1:1 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jn 1:2 – He was in the beginning with God.
Jn 1:3 – All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Jn 1:10 – He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Jn 17:24 – Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Rom 11:36 – For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
1 Cor 8:6 – yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Eph 1:4 – even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Col 1:16 – For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities–all things were created through him and for him.
2 Tim 1:9 – who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Tit 1:2 – in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Heb 1:2 – but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
1 Pet 1:20 – He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for your sake,
2 Pet 3:5 – For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,
God exists forever
Ps 92:8 – but you, O LORD, are on high forever.
Ps 102:12 – But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
Ps 102:24 – "O my God," I say, "take me not away in the midst of my days–you whose years endure throughout all generations!"
Ps 102:26 – They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
Ps 102:27 – but you are the same, and your years have no end.
Isa 9:6 – For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isa 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Isa 57:15 – For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Lam 5:19 – But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
Dan 2:20 – Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
Dan 12:3 – And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Dan 12:7 – And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.
Jn 12:34 – So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
1 Tim 1:17 – To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Heb 1:12 – like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end."
Rev 1:4 – John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
Rev 4:8 – And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"
God is self-existing; He is the beginning and the end
Ex 3:14 – God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
Isa 41:4 – Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 44:6 – Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isa 48:12 – "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.
Jn 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins."
Jn 8:28 – So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
Jn 8:58 – Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."
Jn 13:19 – I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
Rev 1:8 – "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
Rev 1:17 – When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last,
Rev 2:8 – "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.
Rev 21:6 – And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Rev 22:13 – I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
God is from everlasting to everlasting; He is unchanging
1 Chr 16:36 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!"Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD.
Ps 25:6 – Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Ps 41:13 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
Ps 102:26 – They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
Ps 102:27 – but you are the same, and your years have no end.
Dan 2:20 – Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
Mal 3:6 – "For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
1 Tim 6:16 – who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
Heb 1:12 – like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end."
Heb 13:8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Rev 1:4 – John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
Rev 4:8 – And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"
Rev 11:17 – saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
Rev 16:5 – And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
Eternal king
He is king forever
Ex 15:18 – The LORD will reign forever and ever."
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Ps 29:10 – The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king forever.
Ps 45:6 – Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
Ps 93:2 – Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
Ps 145:13 – Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.[The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.]
Ps 146:10 – The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Lam 5:19 – But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Mic 5:2 – But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
Lk 1:33 – and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."
1 Tim 1:17 – To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Heb 1:8 – But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
He reigns forever
Ps 45:6 – Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
Ps 145:13 – Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.[The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.]
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Joel 3:20 – But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Lk 1:33 – and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."
Heb 1:8 – But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
2 Pet 1:11 – For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
Fulfilled by the everlasting covenant (David’s descendent)
2 Sam 7:13 – He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Sam 7:16 – And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'"
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
2 Sam 23:5 – For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?
1 Kgs 2:45 – But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."
1 Kgs 9:5 – then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
1 Chr 17:14 – but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.'"
1 Chr 28:4 – Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
2 Chr 13:5 – Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 89:4 – 'I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
Ps 89:29 – I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
Ps 89:36 – His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Ps 89:37 – Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies." Selah
Ps 132:12 – If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne."
Isa 55:3 – Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Ezek 37:25 – They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Mic 5:2 – But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
A high priest forever
Ps 110:4 – The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
Heb 5:6 – as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
Heb 6:20 – where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 7:17 – For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
Heb 7:21 – but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'"
Heb 7:24 – but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.
Heb 7:28 – For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
Everlasting name
Ex 3:15 – God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ps 72:19 – Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!
Ps 102:12 – But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
Ps 135:13 – Your name, O LORD, endures forever, your renown, O LORD, throughout all ages.
Isa 63:12 – who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,
Everlasting light
Isa 60:19 – The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Isa 60:20 – Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
Dan 12:3 – And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
1 Tim 6:16 – who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
Rev 22:5 – And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Everlasting Lord
Reigns forever
1 Chr 29:11 – Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.
Eccl 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Inhabits eternity
Isa 57:15 – For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Eternal in His attributes
His love endures forever
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
1 Chr 16:34 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
1 Chr 16:41 – With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever.
2 Chr 5:13 – and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,"the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
2 Chr 7:3 – When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever."
2 Chr 7:6 – The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD–for his steadfast love endures forever–whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
2 Chr 20:21 – And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, "Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever."
Ezra 3:11 – And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel."And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
Ps 25:6 – Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Ps 89:2 – For I said, "Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness."
Ps 89:28 – My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
Ps 100:5 – For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 106:1 – Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 107:1 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 118:1 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 118:29 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 136:1 – Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:2 – Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:3 – Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:4 – to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:5 – to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:6 – to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:7 – to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:8 – the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:9 – the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:10 – to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:11 – and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:12 – with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:13 – to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:14 – and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:15 – but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:16 – to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:17 – to him who struck down great kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:18 – and killed mighty kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:19 – Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:20 – and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:21 – and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:22 – a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:23 – It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:24 – and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:25 – he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:26 – Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 138:8 – The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Isa 54:8 – In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the LORD, your Redeemer.
Isa 63:9 – In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Jer 31:3 – the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
Jer 33:11 – the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: "'Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!'For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
His power endures forever
Deut 33:27 – The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Ps 145:13 – Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.[The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.]
Isa 9:6 – For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 26:4 – Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Isa 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Isa 51:9 – Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?
Mic 5:2 – But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Rom 1:20 – For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
1 Tim 6:16 – who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
1 Pet 4:11 – whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies–in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Rev 1:6 – and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Rev 5:13 – And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!"
Righteousness endures forever
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 111:3 – Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.
Ps 119:142 – Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Sin and Shin
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Dan 9:24 – "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
His faithfulness endures forever
Ps 89:2 – For I said, "Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness."
Ps 100:5 – For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Ps 117:2 – For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!
Isa 26:4 – Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Eternal in His words
Eternal words
Ps 19:9 – the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Ps 119:89 – Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Isa 40:8 – The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isa 59:21 – "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says the LORD, "from this time forth and forevermore."
Mt 24:35 – Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Mk 13:31 – Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Lk 1:55 – as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever."
Lk 1:70 – as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
Lk 21:33 – Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Acts 15:18 – known from of old.'
Acts 3:21 – whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
Col 1:26 – the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
1 Pet 1:23 – since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
1 Pet 1:25 – but the word of the Lord remains forever."And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Eternal commands
Ps 105:8 – He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
Ps 111:8 – they are established forever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
Ps 119:152 – Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever. Resh
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Sin and Shin
Ps 148:6 – And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
Isa 30:8 – And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
Eternal promise
Promise of eternal life
Ps 21:4 – He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.
Ps 133:3 – It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Eccl 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Dan 12:2 – And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Mt 19:16 – And behold, a man came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?"
Mt 19:29 – And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Mt 25:46 – And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Ps 21:4 – He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.
Ps 133:3 – It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Eccl 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Dan 12:2 – And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Mt 19:16 – And behold, a man came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?"
Mt 19:29 – And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Mk 10:17 – And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Mk 10:30 – who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
Lk 10:25 – And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Lk 16:9 – And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.
Lk 18:18 – And a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Lk 18:30 – who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life."
Jn 3:15 – that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 3:16 – "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 4:14 – but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Jn 4:36 – Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 5:39 – You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Jn 6:27 – Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
Jn 6:47 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Jn 6:54 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Jn 6:58 – This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."
Jn 6:68 – Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
Jn 8:51 – Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."
Jn 8:52 – The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'
Jn 10:28 – I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
Jn 12:25 – Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Jn 12:50 – And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."
Jn 17:2 – since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Rom 2:7 – to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:22 – But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Rom 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Cor 4:17 – For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
2 Cor 4:18 – as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Cor 5:1 – For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Gal 6:8 – For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
1 Tim 1:16 – But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
1 Tim 6:12 – Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Tit 1:2 – in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
1 Jn 1:2 – the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us–
1 Jn 2:17 – And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 Jn 2:25 – And this is the promise that he made to us–eternal life.
1 Jn 3:15 – Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 Jn 5:11 – And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 Jn 5:13 – I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 Jn 5:20 – And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Jude 1:21 – keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
Promise of everlasting possession
Gen 13:15 – for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Gen 17:8 – And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Gen 48:4 – and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.'
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Josh 14:9 – And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'
Judg 2:1 – Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you,
1 Chr 28:8 – Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
1 Chr 28:8 – Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
2 Chr 20:7 – Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
Ezra 9:12 – Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'
Isa 34:17 – He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
Isa 60:21 – Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
Isa 61:7 – Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.
Jer 7:7 – then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
Jer 25:5 – saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
Ezek 37:25 – They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Heb 9:15 – Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Promise of God’s abidance forever
1 Kgs 9:3 – And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
2 Kgs 21:7 – And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
2 Chr 7:16 – For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
2 Chr 33:4 – And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever."
Ps 68:16 – Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the LORD will dwell forever?
Ps 132:14 – "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
Ezek 37:26 – I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 43:7 – and he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,
Ezek 43:9 – Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Joel 2:27 – You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Jn 8:35 – The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.
Jn 14:16 – And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
2 Jn 1:2 – because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
Promise of everlasting joy
Deut 5:29 – Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
Deut 12:28 – Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
2 Sam 7:29 – Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever."
Ps 16:11 – You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Ps 21:6 – For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.
Isa 35:10 – And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 51:11 – And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 60:15 – Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.
Isa 61:7 – Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.
Promise of everlasting peace
1 Kgs 2:33 – So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore."
Ps 37:27 – Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Jer 31:40 – The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be uprooted or overthrown anymore forever."
Ezek 37:26 – I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Promise of eternal glory
Isa 60:15 – Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
2 Cor 4:17 – For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
2 Tim 2:10 – Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
1 Pet 5:10 – And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Promise of never be ashamed
Isa 25:8 – He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
Isa 45:17 – But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
Joel 2:26 – "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Joel 2:27 – You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Promise of an everlasting name
Isa 56:5 – I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Promise of receiving the Spirit
Isa 59:21 – "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says the LORD, "from this time forth and forevermore."
Promise of receiving God’s words
Isa 59:21 – "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says the LORD, "from this time forth and forevermore."
Promise of reigning with God forever
Rev 22:5 – And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Eternal curse
Everlasting desolation
Deut 13:16 – You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.
Isa 13:20 – It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
Isa 25:2 – For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Isa 32:14 – For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
Isa 34:10 – Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 49:13 – For I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes."
Jer 49:33 – Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her."
Jer 50:39 – "Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.
Jer 51:26 – No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD.
Jer 51:62 – and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'
Ezek 35:9 – I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Perish forever
Job 4:20 – Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
Job 20:7 – he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 9:6 – The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 52:5 – But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Ps 92:7 – that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;
Ezek 26:21 – I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 27:36 – The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.'"
Ezek 28:19 – All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever."
Obad 1:10 – Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
Eternal punishment
1 Sam 3:13 – And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
2 Sam 12:10 – Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
2 Kgs 5:27 – Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.
Mt 25:41 – "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Mt 25:46 – And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Rev 14:11 – And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name."
Rev 19:3 – Once more they cried out, "Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever."
Rev 20:10 – and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Everlasting shame
Ps 78:66 – And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
Jer 18:16 – making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
Jer 20:11 – But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.
Jer 23:40 – And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"
Dan 12:2 – And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Eternal sin
1 Sam 3:14 – Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever."
1 Kgs 2:33 – So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore."
Mt 12:32 – And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Mk 3:29 – but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"–
Eternal destruction
Num 24:20 – Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."
Num 24:24 – But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction."
2 Thess 1:9 – They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Forever cursed
Deut 28:46 – They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.
Mt 21:19 – And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.
Mk 11:14 – And he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it.
Never be remembered
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 9:6 – The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
Isa 14:20 – You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people."May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!
Darkness forever
Ps 49:19 – his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.
Jude 1:13 – wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Jude 1:6 – And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–
Forbidden to enter the assembly of God forever
Deut 23:3 – "No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,
Neh 13:1 – On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
Peace not to be sought forever
Deut 23:6 – You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
No more share forever
Eccl 9:6 – Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
Under God’s anger forever
Mal 1:4 – If Edom says, "We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins," the LORD of hosts says, "They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called 'the wicked country,' and 'the people with whom the LORD is angry forever.'"
Forever statute
Ex 12:14 – "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
Ex 12:17 – And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.
Ex 12:24 – You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
Ex 27:21 – In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.
Ex 28:43 – and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him.
Ex 29:9 – and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
Ex 29:28 – It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD.
Ex 30:21 – They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations."
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Lev 3:17 – It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."
Lev 6:18 – Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD's food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy."
Lev 6:22 – The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the LORD as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned.
Lev 7:34 – For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
Lev 7:36 – The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."
Lev 10:9 – "Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Lev 10:15 – The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be yours and your sons' with you as a due forever, as the LORD has commanded."
Lev 16:29 – "And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.
Lev 16:31 – It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.
Lev 16:34 – And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the LORD commanded him.
Lev 17:7 – So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
Lev 23:14 – And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:21 – And you shall make proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.
Lev 23:31 – You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Lev 23:41 – You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Lev 24:3 – Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Lev 24:9 – And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD's food offerings, a perpetual due."
Lev 25:34 – But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.
Lev 25:46 – You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
Num 10:8 – And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
Num 15:15 – For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.
Num 18:8 – Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
Num 18:11 – This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
Num 18:19 – All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."
Num 18:23 – But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Num 19:10 – And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
Num 19:21 – And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
1 Chr 16:17 – which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,
1 Chr 23:13 – The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the LORD and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.
2 Chr 2:4 – Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained forever for Israel.
Jer 5:22 – Do you not fear me? declares the LORD; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
Ezek 46:14 – And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute.
Everlasting covenant
Gen 9:12 – And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
Gen 9:16 – When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
Gen 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:13 – both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
Gen 17:19 – God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Ex 31:16 – Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.
Lev 24:8 – Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.
Num 18:19 – All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."
Num 25:13 – and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.'"
Judg 2:1 – Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you,
2 Sam 23:5 – For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?
1 Chr 16:15 – Remember his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
1 Chr 16:17 – which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,
2 Chr 13:5 – Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
Ps 89:28 – My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
Ps 89:34 – I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
Ps 105:8 – He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
Ps 105:10 – which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
Ps 111:5 – He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.
Ps 111:9 – He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!
Isa 24:5 – The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isa 55:3 – Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Isa 59:21 – "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says the LORD, "from this time forth and forevermore."
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jer 32:40 – I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
Jer 50:5 – They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'
Ezek 16:60 – yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
Ezek 37:26 – I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Heb 13:20 – Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
Everlasting salvation
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 111:9 – He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!
Isa 45:17 – But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
2 Tim 1:9 – who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Heb 5:9 – And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
Heb 9:12 – he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Eternal will
Ps 33:11 – The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
Rom 16:25 – Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Eph 3:9 – and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things,
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Col 1:26 – the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
2 Tim 1:9 – who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Tit 1:2 – in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Eternal in His works
Eternal election
David’s house
2 Sam 7:16 – And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'"
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
1 Kgs 2:45 – But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."
1 Kgs 9:5 – then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
2 Kgs 21:7 – And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
1 Chr 17:14 – but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.'"
1 Chr 22:10 – He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.'
1 Chr 28:4 – Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
2 Chr 13:5 – Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 89:4 – 'I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
Ps 89:36 – His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Ps 89:37 – Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies." Selah
Ps 132:12 – If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne."
Isa 55:3 – Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Ezek 37:25 – They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Amos 9:11 – "In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,
Isralites
Ex 31:16 – Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.
Ex 31:17 – It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
Lev 24:8 – Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.
2 Sam 7:24 – And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God.
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
1 Chr 16:17 – which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,
1 Chr 17:22 – And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.
1 Chr 17:22 – And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.
Ezra 3:11 – And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel."And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
Ps 48:14 – that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
Ps 105:10 – which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
Isa 45:17 – But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
Ezek 37:25 – They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Joel 2:27 – You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Lk 1:33 – and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."
Jerusalem/Zion
2 Kgs 21:7 – And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
1 Chr 23:25 – For David said, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
2 Chr 7:16 – For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
2 Chr 33:4 – And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever."
2 Chr 33:7 – And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,
Ps 68:16 – Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the LORD will dwell forever?
Ps 125:2 – As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.
Ps 132:14 – "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
Ps 133:3 – It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Ps 146:10 – The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
Isa 33:20 – Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
Isa 35:10 – And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 51:11 – And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Jer 17:25 – then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.
Jer 50:5 – They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'
Joel 3:20 – But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Mal 3:4 – Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.
Aaron and his sons
Ex 29:9 – and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
Ex 29:28 – It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD.
Lev 6:18 – Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD's food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy."
Lev 7:34 – For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
Lev 24:9 – And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD's food offerings, a perpetual due."
Num 18:8 – Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
1 Chr 23:13 – The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the LORD and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.
Abraham
Gen 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:8 – And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
2 Chr 20:7 – Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
Lk 1:55 – as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever."
Those who are saved
Isa 63:16 – For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Eph 3:9 – and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things,
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
2 Tim 1:9 – who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Levites
Num 18:23 – But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
1 Chr 15:2 – Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD had chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever.
Eternal fire
Isa 33:14 – The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"
Isa 34:10 – Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
Jer 17:4 – You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."
Mt 18:8 – And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
Mt 25:41 – "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Rev 19:3 – Once more they cried out, "Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever."
Rev 20:10 – and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Eternal city
Ps 48:8 – As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah
Isa 33:20 – Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
Jer 17:25 – then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.
Eternal comfort
Isa 25:8 – He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
Isa 60:20 – Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
2 Thess 2:16 – Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
Eternal dwelling
Lk 16:9 – And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.
2 Cor 5:1 – For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Eternal sign
Ex 31:17 – It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
Eternal fire
Jer 17:4 – You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."
Eternal judgment
Heb 6:2 – and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Eternal redemption
Heb 9:12 – he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Eternal gospel
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Other
Eccl 3:14 – I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.
Lasting works
Establishes forever
2 Sam 7:13 – He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Sam 7:16 – And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'"
2 Sam 7:24 – And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God.
2 Sam 7:26 – And your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
1 Kgs 2:45 – But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."
1 Kgs 9:5 – then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
1 Chr 17:12 – He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chr 17:14 – but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.'"
1 Chr 22:10 – He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.'
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
Ps 48:8 – As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah
Ps 55:22 – Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Ps 89:4 – 'I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
Ps 89:37 – Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies." Selah
Amos 9:11 – "In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,
Saves forever
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 111:9 – He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Isa 63:16 – For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Heb 9:12 – he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Loves forever
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
Ezra 3:11 – And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel."And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 89:28 – My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
Keeps forever
Ps 55:22 – Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Ps 121:8 – The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Isa 33:20 – Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
Blesses forever
1 Chr 17:27 – Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O LORD, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever."
Ps 45:2 – You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
Surrounds forever
1 Chr 23:25 – For David said, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
Ps 125:2 – As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.
Victory forever
Job 14:20 – You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
Isa 25:8 – He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
Rules forever
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Other
Jn 5:17 – But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working."
Ps 45:6 – Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
Womb, רֶחֶם
Jer 20:17 – because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.
Verbs with "Eternity" (עֹולָם) as Object
Give, נָתַן
Eccl 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Verbs with "Eternity" (עֹולָם) as Indirect Object
Sit, יָשַׁב
Ps 125:1 – Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Jer 17:25 – then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.
Adjectives Modifying "Eternity" (עֹולָם)
Pregnant, הָרֶה
Jer 20:17 – because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.
Appositions with "Eternity" (עֹולָם)
A devastation, שְׁמָמָה
Josh 8:28 – So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
Prepositions with "Eternity" (עֹולָם)
To, for, לְ
Gen 3:22 – Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever–"
Gen 6:3 – Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."
Ex 3:15 – God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
Ex 15:18 – The LORD will reign forever and ever."
Ex 19:9 – And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever."When Moses told the words of the people to the LORD,
Ex 21:6 – then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
Ex 31:17 – It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Lev 25:46 – You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
Deut 5:29 – Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
Deut 23:6 – You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
Deut 32:40 – For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,
Judg 2:1 – Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you,
2 Sam 7:29 – Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever."
1 Kgs 1:31 – Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and paid homage to the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever!"
1 Kgs 2:33 – So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore."
1 Kgs 9:5 – then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
2 Kgs 5:27 – Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.
2 Kgs 21:7 – And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
1 Chr 16:15 – Remember his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
1 Chr 16:34 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
1 Chr 16:41 – With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever.
1 Chr 17:27 – Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O LORD, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever."
1 Chr 23:25 – For David said, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
1 Chr 28:4 – Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
1 Chr 29:18 – O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.
2 Chr 2:4 – Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained forever for Israel.
2 Chr 5:13 – and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,"the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
2 Chr 7:3 – When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever."
2 Chr 7:6 – The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD–for his steadfast love endures forever–whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
2 Chr 13:5 – Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chr 20:7 – Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
2 Chr 20:21 – And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, "Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever."
2 Chr 30:8 – Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
2 Chr 33:4 – And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever."
Ezra 3:11 – And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel."And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
Neh 2:3 – I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"
Job 7:16 – I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
Ps 5:11 – But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 12:7 – You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever.
Ps 15:5 – who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
Ps 29:10 – The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king forever.
Ps 30:6 – As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
Ps 30:12 – that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Ps 31:1 – In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
Ps 33:11 – The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
Ps 37:18 – The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever;
Ps 37:27 – Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 41:12 – But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
Ps 44:8 – In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
Ps 45:2 – You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
Ps 45:17 – I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.
Ps 49:8 – for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice,
Ps 49:11 – Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.
Ps 52:9 – I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.
Ps 55:22 – Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Ps 71:1 – In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ps 72:19 – Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!
Ps 73:26 – My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Ps 75:9 – But I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
Ps 77:7 – "Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?
Ps 78:69 – He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
Ps 79:13 – But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
Ps 81:15 – Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
Ps 85:5 – Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
Ps 86:12 – I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
Ps 89:28 – My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
Ps 89:36 – His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
Ps 89:52 – Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.
Ps 92:8 – but you, O LORD, are on high forever.
Ps 100:5 – For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Ps 102:12 – But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
Ps 103:9 – He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
Ps 104:31 – May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works,
Ps 105:8 – He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
Ps 106:1 – Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 107:1 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 110:4 – The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
Ps 111:5 – He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.
Ps 111:8 – they are established forever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
Ps 111:9 – He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!
Ps 112:6 – For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.
Ps 117:2 – For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!
Ps 118:1 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 118:2 – Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures forever."
Ps 118:3 – Let the house of Aaron say, "His steadfast love endures forever."
Ps 118:4 – Let those who fear the LORD say, "His steadfast love endures forever."
Ps 118:29 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ps 119:44 – I will keep your law continually, forever and ever,
Ps 119:89 – Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Ps 119:93 – I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.
Ps 119:98 – Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
Ps 119:111 – Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Ps 119:112 – I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end. Samekh
Ps 119:142 – Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
Ps 119:152 – Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever. Resh
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Sin and Shin
Ps 125:1 – Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Ps 135:13 – Your name, O LORD, endures forever, your renown, O LORD, throughout all ages.
Ps 136:1 – Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:2 – Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:3 – Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:4 – to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:5 – to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:6 – to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:7 – to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:8 – the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:9 – the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:10 – to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:11 – and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:12 – with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:13 – to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:14 – and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:15 – but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:16 – to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:17 – to him who struck down great kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:18 – and killed mighty kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:19 – Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:20 – and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:21 – and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:22 – a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:23 – It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:24 – and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:25 – he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:26 – Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 138:8 – The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Ps 145:1 – I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.
Ps 145:2 – Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.
Ps 145:21 – My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
Ps 146:6 – who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever;
Ps 146:10 – The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
Ps 148:6 – And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
Prov 10:30 – The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
Prov 27:24 – for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
Eccl 1:4 – A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
Eccl 1:10 – Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already in the ages before us.
Eccl 2:16 – For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
Eccl 3:14 – I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.
Eccl 9:6 – Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
Isa 14:20 – You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people."May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!
Isa 25:2 – For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Isa 34:10 – Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
Isa 40:8 – The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isa 47:7 – You said, "I shall be mistress forever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Isa 57:16 – For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made.
Isa 60:21 – Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
Jer 3:5 – will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could."
Jer 3:12 – Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "'Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever.
Jer 17:25 – then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.
Jer 31:40 – The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be uprooted or overthrown anymore forever."
Jer 33:11 – the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: "'Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!'For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD.
Lam 3:31 – For the Lord will not cast off forever,
Lam 5:19 – But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
Ezek 26:21 – I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 37:25 – They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Ezek 37:26 – I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 43:7 – and he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,
Ezek 43:9 – Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.
Dan 12:3 – And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Joel 2:26 – "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Joel 2:27 – You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Joel 3:20 – But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
Obad 1:10 – Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
Jon 2:6 – at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
Mic 2:9 – The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
Mic 4:5 – For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
Zech 1:5 – Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
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Gen 13:15 – for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Ex 12:24 – You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
Ex 14:13 – And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
Deut 12:28 – Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
Deut 23:3 – "No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,
Deut 28:46 – They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.
Deut 29:29 – "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Josh 4:7 – then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever."
Josh 14:9 – And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'
1 Sam 1:22 – But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the LORD and dwell there forever."
1 Sam 2:30 – Therefore the LORD the God of Israel declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,' but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Sam 3:13 – And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
1 Sam 3:14 – Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever."
1 Sam 13:13 – And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
1 Sam 20:15 – and do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."
1 Sam 20:23 – And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever."
1 Sam 20:42 – Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, 'The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
2 Sam 7:13 – He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Sam 7:16 – And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'"
2 Sam 7:24 – And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God.
2 Sam 7:25 – And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
2 Sam 7:26 – And your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
2 Sam 12:10 – Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
1 Kgs 2:33 – So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore."
1 Kgs 2:45 – But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."
1 Kgs 9:3 – And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
1 Chr 15:2 – Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD had chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever.
1 Chr 16:36 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!"Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD.
1 Chr 17:12 – He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chr 17:14 – but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.'"
1 Chr 17:22 – And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.
1 Chr 17:23 – And now, O LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken,
1 Chr 17:24 – and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, 'The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
1 Chr 22:10 – He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.'
1 Chr 23:13 – The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the LORD and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.
1 Chr 28:8 – Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
1 Chr 29:10 – Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: "Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
2 Chr 7:16 – For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
Ezra 9:12 – Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'
Neh 9:5 – Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, "Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Neh 13:1 – On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 28:9 – Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Ps 41:13 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
Ps 48:8 – As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah
Ps 89:4 – 'I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
Ps 90:2 – Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 106:31 – And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.
Ps 106:48 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!
Ps 113:2 – Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore!
Ps 115:18 – But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD!
Ps 121:8 – The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Ps 125:2 – As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.
Ps 131:3 – O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forevermore.
Ps 133:3 – It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 30:8 – And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
Isa 32:14 – For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
Isa 32:17 – And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
Isa 34:17 – He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
Isa 45:17 – But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
Isa 59:21 – "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says the LORD, "from this time forth and forevermore."
Jer 7:7 – then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
Jer 17:4 – You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."
Jer 25:5 – saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
Jer 35:6 – But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.
Jer 49:33 – Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her."
Ezek 27:36 – The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.'"
Ezek 28:19 – All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever."
Ezek 37:25 – They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Mal 1:4 – If Edom says, "We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins," the LORD of hosts says, "They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called 'the wicked country,' and 'the people with whom the LORD is angry forever.'"
Out of, מִן
Gen 6:4 – The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Josh 24:2 – And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.
1 Sam 27:8 – Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
1 Chr 16:36 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!"Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD.
1 Chr 29:10 – Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: "Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
Neh 9:5 – Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, "Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Ps 25:6 – Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Ps 41:13 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
Ps 90:2 – Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Ps 93:2 – Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 106:48 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Prov 8:23 – Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
Isa 42:14 – For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.
Isa 46:9 – remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 57:11 – Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?
Isa 63:16 – For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Isa 63:19 – We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.
Isa 64:4 – From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
Jer 2:20 – "For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 7:7 – then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
Jer 25:5 – saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
Jer 28:8 – The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.
Ezek 26:20 – then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.
Joel 2:2 – a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
Future, עַד
2 Sam 3:28 – Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
… of "Eternity" (עֹולָם)
Regulation, חֻקָּה
Ex 12:14 – "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
Ex 12:17 – And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.
Ex 27:21 – In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.
Ex 28:43 – and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him.
Ex 29:9 – and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
Lev 3:17 – It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."
Lev 7:36 – The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."
Lev 10:9 – "Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Lev 16:29 – "And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.
Lev 16:31 – It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.
Lev 16:34 – And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the LORD commanded him.
Lev 17:7 – So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
Lev 23:14 – And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:21 – And you shall make proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.
Lev 23:31 – You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Lev 23:41 – You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Lev 24:3 – Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Num 10:8 – And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
Num 15:15 – For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.
Num 18:23 – But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Num 19:10 – And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
Num 19:21 – And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
Ezek 46:14 – And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute.
Covenant, בְּרִית
Gen 9:16 – When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
Gen 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:13 – both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
Gen 17:19 – God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Ex 31:16 – Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.
Lev 24:8 – Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.
2 Sam 23:5 – For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?
1 Chr 16:17 – which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,
Ps 105:10 – which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
Isa 24:5 – The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isa 55:3 – Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jer 32:40 – I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
Jer 50:5 – They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'
Ezek 16:60 – yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
Ezek 37:26 – I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Portion, חֹק
Ex 29:28 – It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD.
Ex 30:21 – They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations."
Lev 6:18 – Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD's food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy."
Lev 6:22 – The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the LORD as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned.
Lev 7:34 – For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
Lev 10:15 – The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be yours and your sons' with you as a due forever, as the LORD has commanded."
Lev 24:9 – And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD's food offerings, a perpetual due."
Num 18:8 – Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
Num 18:11 – This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
Num 18:19 – All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."
Jer 5:22 – Do you not fear me? declares the LORD; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
Day, יׄום
Deut 32:7 – Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
Isa 63:9 – In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Isa 63:11 – Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit,
Amos 9:11 – "In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,
Mic 5:2 – But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
Mic 7:14 – Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
Mal 3:4 – Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.
Ruin, חָרְבָּה
Isa 58:12 – And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.
Isa 61:4 – They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 49:13 – For I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes."
A devastation, שְׁמָמָה
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 51:26 – No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD.
Jer 51:62 – and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'
Ezek 35:9 – I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Land property, אֲחֻזָּה
Gen 17:8 – And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Gen 48:4 – and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.'
Lev 25:34 – But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.
Hill, גִּבְעָה
Gen 49:26 – The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
Deut 33:15 – with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills,
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Servant, עֶבֶד
Deut 15:17 – then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.
1 Sam 27:12 – And Achish trusted David, thinking, "He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant."
Job 41:4 – Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
Joy, שִׂמְחָה
Isa 35:10 – And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 51:11 – And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 61:7 – Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.
Generation, דֹּור
Gen 9:12 – And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
Isa 51:9 – Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?
Priesthood, כְּהֻנָּה
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Num 25:13 – and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.'"
Mound, תֵּל
Deut 13:16 – You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.
Josh 8:28 – So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
King, מֶלֶךְ
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Opening, פֶּתַח
Ps 24:7 – Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Ps 24:9 – Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Reproach, חֶרְפָּה
Ps 78:66 – And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
Jer 23:40 – And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"
Die, מוּת
Ps 143:3 – For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
Lam 3:6 – he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
Boundary, גְּבוּל
Prov 22:28 – Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.
Prov 23:10 – Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
People, עַם
Isa 44:7 – Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.
Ezek 26:20 – then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.
Name, שֵׁם
Isa 56:5 – I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Isa 63:12 – who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,
Light, אֹור
Isa 60:19 – The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Isa 60:20 – Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
Sleep, שֵׁנָא
Jer 51:39 – While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.
Jer 51:57 – I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Enmity, אֵיבָה
Ezek 25:15 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,
Ezek 35:5 – Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,
Alive, חַי
Dan 12:2 – And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Dan 12:7 – And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.
God, אֵל
Gen 21:33 – Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Right of buying back, גְּאֻלָּה
Lev 25:32 – As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.
Salt, מֶלַח
Num 18:19 – All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."
Arm, זְרֹועַ
Deut 33:27 – The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
Path, אֹרַח
Job 22:15 – Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?
Quiet, שָׁלֵו
Ps 73:12 – Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
Year, שָׁנָה
Ps 77:5 – I consider the days of old, the years long ago.
Mention, זֵכֶר
Ps 112:6 – For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.
Way, דֶּרֶךְ
Ps 139:24 – And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Whole, כֹּל
Ps 145:13 – Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.[The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.]
Foundation, יְסׄוד
Prov 10:25 – When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.
House, בַּיִת
Eccl 12:5 – they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets–
Rock, צוּר
Isa 26:4 – Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Hearth, מֹוקֵד
Isa 33:14 – The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Isa 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Salvation, תְּשׁוּעָה
Isa 45:17 – But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
Goodness, חֶסֶד
Isa 54:8 – In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the LORD, your Redeemer.
Sign, אֹות
Isa 55:13 – Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
Height, גָּאֹון
Isa 60:15 – Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.
Path, נָתִיב
Jer 6:16 – Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Path, שְׁבִיל
Jer 18:15 – But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,
Whistling, שְׁרוּקָה
Jer 18:16 – making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
Insult, כְּלִמָּה
Jer 20:11 – But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.
Insult, כְּלִמּוּת
Jer 23:40 – And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"
Love, אַהֲבָה
Jer 31:3 – the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
High place, בָּמָה
Ezek 36:2 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, 'Aha!' and, 'The ancient heights have become our possession,'
Justice, צֶדֶק
Dan 9:24 – "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Abhorrence, דֵּרָאֹון
Dan 12:2 – And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Walk, הֲלִיכָה
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
"Eternity" (עֹולָם) of …
Him
Eccl 12:5 – they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets–
Future, עַד
Isa 45:17 – But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
… and "Eternity" (עֹולָם)
Eternity, עֹולָם
Ps 41:13 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 106:48 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!
"Eternity" (עֹולָם) and …
Future, עַד
Ex 15:18 – The LORD will reign forever and ever."
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 21:4 – He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.
Ps 45:6 – Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
Ps 45:17 – I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.
Ps 48:14 – that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
Ps 52:8 – But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
Ps 104:5 – He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
Ps 119:44 – I will keep your law continually, forever and ever,
Ps 145:1 – I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.
Ps 145:2 – Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.
Ps 145:21 – My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
Dan 12:3 – And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Mic 4:5 – For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
Eternity, עֹולָם
Ps 41:13 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 106:48 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!
"Eternity" (עֹולָם) as Adjunct of …
Destruction, מַשְׁחִית
Ezek 25:15 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,
Deut 4:35 – To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.
Deut 4:39 – know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Deut 6:4 – "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Deut 32:39 – "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
2 Sam 7:22 – Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Sam 7:28 – And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
2 Sam 22:32 – "For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
1 Kgs 8:60 – that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.
2 Kgs 5:15 – Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."
2 Kgs 19:19 – So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone."
1 Chr 16:26 – For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
1 Chr 17:20 – There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1 Chr 17:26 – And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
2 Chr 33:13 – He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
Ezra 1:3 – Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel–he is the God who is in Jerusalem.
Neh 9:6 – "You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Ps 18:31 – For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?–
Ps 83:18 – that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
Ps 86:10 – For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.
Ps 92:8 – but you, O LORD, are on high forever.
Ps 96:5 – For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Isa 37:16 – "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Isa 37:20 – So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD."
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 43:11 – I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
Isa 44:6 – Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isa 44:8 – Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."
Isa 45:5 – I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,
Isa 45:6 – that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Isa 45:21 – Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
Isa 45:22 – "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Isa 46:9 – remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Hos 13:4 – But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Joel 2:27 – You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Mk 12:29 – Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Mk 12:32 – And the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 16:27 – to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
1 Cor 8:4 – Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."
1 Cor 8:6 – yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
1 Cor 12:6 – and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
Gal 3:20 – Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
Eph 4:5 – one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Eph 4:6 – one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Jude 1:24 – Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
The only name to be exalted
Ex 23:13 – "Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.
Deut 12:3 – You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
1 Kgs 8:43 – hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
Ps 16:4 – The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips.
Ps 83:18 – that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
Ps 102:12 – But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
Ps 148:13 – Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
Isa 42:8 – I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
Hos 2:17 – For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
Zeph 1:4 – "I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,
Zech 13:2 – "And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
Zech 14:9 – And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.
Acts 4:12 – And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Phil 2:9 – Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
Phil 2:10 – so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
The only eternal one
Isa 41:4 – Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 44:6 – Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isa 48:12 – "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.
1 Tim 1:17 – To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Tim 6:16 – who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
Heb 1:12 – like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end."
Rev 1:4 – John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
Rev 1:8 – "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
Rev 1:17 – When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last,
Rev 2:8 – "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.
Rev 4:8 – And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"
Rev 11:17 – saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
Rev 16:5 – And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
Rev 21:6 – And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Rev 22:13 – I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
The only exalted one
Ex 18:11 – Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people."
Deut 10:17 – For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
1 Chr 16:25 – For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
1 Chr 29:11 – Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.
Ps 77:13 – Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
Ps 83:18 – that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
Ps 89:6 – For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
Ps 92:8 – but you, O LORD, are on high forever.
Ps 95:3 – For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Ps 96:4 – For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
Ps 97:9 – For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
Ps 113:5 – Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high,
Ps 135:5 – For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
Ps 148:13 – Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
The only saviour, helper
Deut 32:12 – the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.
2 Chr 14:11 – And Asa cried to the LORD his God, "O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you."
Ps 18:32 – the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.
Ps 44:7 – But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us.
Ps 62:2 – He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Ps 62:6 – He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
Hos 13:4 – But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Isa 37:20 – So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD."
Isa 43:11 – I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
Isa 51:12 – "I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,
Acts 4:12 – And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
The only almighty
Deut 32:12 – the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.
Deut 32:39 – "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Ps 72:18 – Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
Ps 86:10 – For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.
Ps 89:8 – O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?
Ps 136:4 – to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Prov 19:21 – Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.
Isa 45:24 – "Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
The only Lord
Deut 6:4 – "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Deut 10:17 – For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
Ps 76:7 – But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?
Ps 89:7 – a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?
Ps 89:8 – O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?
Dan 2:47 – The king answered and said to Daniel, "Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery."
1 Cor 8:6 – yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
The only creator
1 Chr 16:26 – For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Neh 9:6 – "You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Job 9:8 – who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
Ps 96:5 – For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Isa 37:16 – "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Isa 45:8 – "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it.
1 Cor 8:6 – yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
The only rock
1 Sam 2:2 – "There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
2 Sam 22:32 – "For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
Ps 18:31 – For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?–
Ps 62:2 – He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Ps 62:6 – He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
The only father
Mal 2:10 – Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Jn 8:41 – You are doing what your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father–even God."
1 Cor 8:6 – yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Eph 4:6 – one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
唯一的聖潔者 The only holy one
1 Sam 2:2 – "There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
Ps 77:13 – Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
Isa 40:25 – To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
The only omniscient
1 Kgs 8:39 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
2 Chr 6:30 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Rom 16:27 – to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
The only judge
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 75:7 – but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
The only one who forgives sins
Mic 7:18 – Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
Mk 2:7 – "Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
Lk 5:21 – And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
The only good
Mk 10:18 – And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
The only source of blessings and curses
Curses
Ex 9:14 – For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Deut 32:39 – "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Isa 45:7 – I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Lam 3:38 – Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
Blessings
Josh 24:20 – If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good."
2 Sam 7:28 – And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
1 Chr 17:26 – And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
Lam 3:38 – Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
Authority
Dan 4:17 – The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.'
Dan 4:25 – that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
Dan 4:32 – and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will."
Dan 5:18 – O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.
Dan 7:27 – And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.'
Life
Deut 32:39 – "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
1 Cor 8:6 – yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Rev 21:6 – And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Peace
Deut 32:39 – "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Ps 4:8 – In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Isa 45:7 – I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Inheritance
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Salvation
Acts 4:12 – And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Can not be compared with any creation
Ex 9:14 – For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Ex 20:23 – You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
1 Sam 2:2 – "There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
2 Sam 7:22 – Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1 Kgs 8:23 – and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
1 Chr 17:20 – There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Chr 6:14 – and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
Ps 86:8 – There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
Ps 89:6 – For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
Ps 89:8 – O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?
Ps 113:5 – Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high,
Isa 40:18 – To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?
Isa 40:25 – To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
Isa 44:7 – Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.
Isa 46:5 – "To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?
Isa 46:9 – remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
Mic 7:18 – Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
God’s attributes
Trenscends boundaries
Gen 14:19 – And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
Gen 14:22 – But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
Ex 8:22 – But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Ex 9:14 – For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Deut 4:39 – know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
1 Kgs 8:23 – and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
1 Kgs 8:60 – that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.
2 Kgs 5:15 – Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."
2 Kgs 19:19 – So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone."
1 Chr 29:11 – Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.
2 Chr 6:14 – and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
Neh 9:6 – "You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Ps 47:2 – For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.
Ps 47:9 – The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
Ps 83:18 – that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
Ps 97:9 – For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
Isa 37:16 – "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Isa 37:20 – So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD."
Isa 45:6 – that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Isa 45:22 – "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Dan 7:27 – And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.'
Zech 14:9 – And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.
Acts 4:12 – And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
1 Cor 8:6 – yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Eph 4:6 – one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Transcends time
Exists eternally
Ps 90:2 – Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Ps 92:8 – but you, O LORD, are on high forever.
Ps 93:2 – Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
Ps 102:12 – But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 44:6 – Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isa 44:8 – Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."
Isa 45:21 – Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
Isa 46:9 – remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa 48:12 – "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.
Isa 57:15 – For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Mic 5:2 – But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
1 Pet 1:25 – but the word of the Lord remains forever."And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Gives eternal life
Jn 3:15 – that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 3:16 – "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 6:68 – Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
Jn 10:28 – I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Has an everlasting kingdom
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Dan 7:18 – But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.'
Dan 7:22 – until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.
Dan 7:27 – And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.'
Is the everlasting king
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
1 Tim 1:17 – To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
His steadfast love endures forever
Ps 136:2 – Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:3 – Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:4 – to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever;
His words stand forever
Isa 40:8 – The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
1 Pet 1:25 – but the word of the Lord remains forever."And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Gives salvation to all generations
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Has everlasting dominion
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
1 Tim 6:16 – who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
Has everlasting truth
1 Pet 1:25 – but the word of the Lord remains forever." And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Rom 16:25 – Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
Has everlasting righteousness
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Has everlasting honor
1 Tim 6:16 – who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
Goodness
Righteousness
Deut 10:17 – For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
Isa 45:21 – Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
Isa 45:24 – "Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Rev 15:3 – And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Holiness
1 Sam 2:2 – "There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
Ps 77:13 – Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
Isa 5:16 – But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Isa 40:25 – To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
Isa 57:15 – For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Faithfulness
2 Sam 7:28 – And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
2 Sam 22:32 – "For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
Ps 89:8 – O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?
Love
Ps 136:2 – Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 136:3 – Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Ps 136:4 – to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Living
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
How does one know that there is only one God?
According to the works of God
Punishment
Ex 9:14 – For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
2 Chr 33:13 – He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
Ps 76:7 – But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?
Dan 4:17 – The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.'
Dan 4:25 – that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
Dan 4:32 – and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will."
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Salvation
Ex 8:22 – But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
1 Kgs 8:60 – that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.
2 Kgs 5:15 – Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."
2 Kgs 19:19 – So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone."
2 Chr 14:11 – And Asa cried to the LORD his God, "O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you."
Creation
1 Chr 16:26 – For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Neh 9:6 – "You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Isa 37:16 – "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Revelation
Deut 4:35 – To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.
According to the testimony of men
Ex 18:11 – Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people."
1 Sam 2:2 – "There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
2 Sam 7:22 – Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Sam 7:28 – And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
2 Sam 22:32 – "For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
1 Kgs 8:60 – that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.
2 Kgs 5:15 – Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."
1 Chr 17:20 – There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1 Chr 17:26 – And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
2 Chr 33:13 – He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
Neh 9:6 – "You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Ps 18:31 – For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?–
Ps 18:32 – the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.
Ps 76:7 – But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?
Ps 77:13 – Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
Ps 83:18 – that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
Ps 86:10 – For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.
Ps 89:6 – For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
Ps 89:7 – a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?
Ps 89:8 – O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?
Ps 92:8 – but you, O LORD, are on high forever.
Ps 97:7 – All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!
Ps 97:9 – For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
Ps 102:12 – But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
Ps 113:5 – Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high,
Ps 135:5 – For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
Ps 136:2 – Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Ps 148:13 – Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
Isa 37:16 – "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Isa 37:20 – So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD."
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 44:8 – Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Dan 3:29 – Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way."
Dan 4:2 – It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.
Dan 4:17 – The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.'
Dan 4:25 – that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
Dan 4:32 – and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will."
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Mic 7:18 – Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
According to God’s self introduction
Deut 32:39 – "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 43:11 – I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
Isa 44:6 – Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isa 45:6 – that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Isa 45:21 – Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
Isa 45:22 – "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Hos 13:4 – But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Joel 2:27 – You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
According to the commands of the law
Ex 20:3 – "You shall have no other gods before me.
Ex 20:4 – "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Ex 20:5 – You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Deut 4:35 – To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.
Deut 4:39 – know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Deut 6:4 – "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Mk 12:29 – Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Mk 12:32 – And the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.
There is only one Spirit
1 Cor 12:4 – Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
2 Cor 11:4 – For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
2 Cor 12:18 – I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
Eph 2:18 – For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Men will turn to the one true God
Isa 2:11 – The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Isa 2:17 – And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Isa 45:14 – Thus says the LORD: "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying: 'Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.'"
Isa 45:22 – "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Isa 45:24 – "Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
Joel 2:27 – You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Zech 14:9 – And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Mt 4:15 – "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles–
Mt 5:47 – And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Mt 6:7 – "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Mt 6:32 – For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Mt 10:5 – These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,
Mt 10:18 – and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Mt 12:21 – and in his name the Gentiles will hope."
Mt 18:17 – If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Mt 20:19 – and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day."
Mt 20:25 – But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Mt 21:43 – Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Mk 10:42 – And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Lk 2:32 – a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."
Lk 12:30 – For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
Lk 18:32 – For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.
Lk 21:10 – Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Lk 21:24 – They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Lk 22:25 – And he said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.
Acts 4:25 – who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
Acts 4:27 – for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 10:35 – but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts 10:45 – And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 11:1 – Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 11:18 – When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life."
Acts 13:19 – And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:47 – For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 14:2 – But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Acts 14:5 – When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:12 – And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Acts 15:14 – Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
Acts 15:17 – that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
Acts 15:19 – Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Acts 15:23 – with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.
Acts 18:6 – And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
Acts 21:11 – And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
Acts 21:19 – After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 21:21 – and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
Acts 22:21 – And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 26:17 – delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles–to whom I am sending you
Acts 26:20 – but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
Acts 28:28 – Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen."
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 2:14 – For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
Rom 2:24 – For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
Rom 3:29 – Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Rom 9:24 – even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 10:19 – But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
Rom 11:11 – So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
Rom 11:12 – Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
Rom 11:13 – Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
Rom 11:25 – Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rom 15:9 – and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
Rom 15:10 – And again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people."
Rom 15:11 – And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him."
Rom 15:12 – And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope."
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:18 – For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience–by word and deed,
Rom 15:27 – They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
1 Cor 1:23 – but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
1 Cor 5:1 – It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
1 Cor 12:2 – You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
2 Cor 11:26 – on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;
Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Gal 2:2 – I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Gal 2:8 – (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
Gal 2:9 – and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
Gal 2:12 – For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.
Gal 2:14 – But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"
Gal 2:15 – We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Eph 2:11 – Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands–
Eph 3:1 – For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles–
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Eph 3:8 – To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Eph 4:17 – Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Thess 2:16 – by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved–so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
1 Thess 4:5 – not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Tim 2:7 – For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
2 Tim 4:17 – But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
1 Pet 2:12 – Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
1 Pet 4:3 – The time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
3 Jn 1:7 – For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
Rev 11:2 – but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Reference to mankind
Mt 24:7 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mt 24:9 – "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Mt 24:14 – And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Mt 25:32 – Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Mt 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mk 11:17 – And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."
Mk 13:8 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
Lk 21:25 – "And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 14:16 – In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 17:26 – And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Rev 2:26 – The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 10:11 – And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings."
Rev 11:9 – For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Rev 13:7 – Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Rev 14:8 – Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
Rev 15:3 – And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Rev 16:19 – The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
Rev 17:15 – And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
Rev 18:3 – For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."
Rev 18:23 – and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
Rev 19:15 – From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Rev 20:3 – and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
Rev 20:8 – and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
Rev 21:24 – By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,
Rev 21:26 – They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
Rev 22:2 – through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
The land of Judah/people
Lk 7:5 – for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue."
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Jn 11:48 – If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
Jn 11:50 – Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."
Jn 11:51 – He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
Jn 11:52 – and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Jn 18:35 – Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?"
Acts 8:9 – But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.
Acts 10:22 – And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say."
Acts 24:10 – And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied:"Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
Acts 24:17 – Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
Acts 26:4 – "My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
Acts 28:19 – But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar–though I had no charge to bring against my nation.
Rom 10:19 – But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The relationship between God and nation
He saves all nations
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Mt 12:21 – and in his name the Gentiles will hope."
Lk 2:32 – a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."
Acts 13:47 – For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
Acts 28:28 – Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen."
Rom 9:24 – even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
Rom 11:11 – So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
1 Thess 2:16 – by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved–so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Rev 15:3 – And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
He rules all nations
Rom 3:29 – Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Mt 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mk 11:17 – And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."
Rom 10:19 – But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
Rom 15:12 – And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope."
Rev 10:11 – And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings."
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Rev 15:3 – And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Rev 19:15 – From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
He chooses people of all nations
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:14 – Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
He judges all nations
Mt 25:32 – Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 14:8 – Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
Rev 16:19 – The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
Rev 19:15 – From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Rev 20:3 – and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
He creates all nations
Acts 17:26 – And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
He gives authority
Rev 2:26 – The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
Rev 13:7 – Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
He is believed on in the world
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
He is the one and only God
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Distinction between God’s people and the gentiles
In citizenship
The big Babylon
Rev 14:8 – Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
Rev 17:15 – And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
Rev 18:3 – For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."
Rev 18:23 – and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
Rev 20:8 – and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
The holy city
Rev 21:24 – By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,
Rev 21:26 – They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
Rev 22:2 – through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
In actions
Mt 5:47 – And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Mt 6:7 – "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Eph 4:17 – Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
1 Thess 4:5 – not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Pet 2:12 – Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
1 Pet 4:3 – The time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
Rev 11:2 – but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
At the time of judgment
Acts 14:16 – In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 21:21 – and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
Rom 2:14 – For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 14:8 – Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
Rev 19:15 – From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
In values
Mt 6:32 – For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Mk 11:17 – And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."
Lk 12:30 – For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
In status
Mt 18:17 – If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Gal 2:15 – We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
3 Jn 1:7 – For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
In governance
Mt 20:25 – But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Mk 10:42 – And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Lk 22:25 – And he said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.
In region
Mt 4:15 – "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles–
Mt 10:5 – These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,
Under law
Gal 2:12 – For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.
Eph 2:11 – Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands–
In grace
Rom 11:12 – Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
In mission
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The content of the gospel
Salvation is fulfilled by Christ
Mt 20:19 – and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day."
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Lk 18:32 – For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.
Jn 11:51 – He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
Jn 11:52 – and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Acts 4:25 – who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
Acts 4:27 – for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Eph 3:8 – To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 15:3 – And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Salvation is given to the gentiles
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
The conditions of receiving salvation
Repent
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 11:18 – When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life."
Acts 26:20 – but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Believe
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Rely on Jesus Christ
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Bear fruits
Mt 21:43 – Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
God’s mercy
Rom 15:9 – and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
Obedience
Rom 15:18 – For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience–by word and deed,
The Object of the gospel—the whole world
Gentiles
Mt 10:18 – and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Lk 2:32 – a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 11:18 – When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life."
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:47 – For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:12 – And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Acts 18:6 – And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
Acts 22:21 – And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 26:17 – delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles–to whom I am sending you
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
Acts 28:28 – Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen."
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
Rom 9:24 – even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
Rom 11:13 – Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
Rom 11:25 – Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rom 15:10 – And again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people."
Rom 15:11 – And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him."
Rom 15:12 – And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope."
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Gal 2:2 – I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Gal 2:8 – (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
Gal 2:9 – and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
2 Tim 4:17 – But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
All nations
Mt 24:14 – And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Mt 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Israelites
Lk 2:32 – a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
Rom 15:10 – And again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people."
Gal 2:8 – (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
Gal 2:9 – and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
The result of the gospel—All nations will come to the Lord
Mt 12:21 – and in his name the Gentiles will hope."
Mt 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
Acts 10:35 – but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts 10:45 – And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 11:1 – Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 11:18 – When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life."
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:14 – Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
Acts 15:17 – that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
Acts 15:19 – Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Acts 15:23 – with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
Acts 28:28 – Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen."
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 11:25 – Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rom 15:9 – and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
Rom 15:10 – And again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people."
Rom 15:11 – And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him."
Rom 15:12 – And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope."
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:18 – For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience–by word and deed,
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
The agent of spreading the gospel—the apostles
Mt 10:5 – These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,
Mt 10:18 – and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
Mt 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:47 – For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:12 – And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Acts 15:14 – Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
Acts 18:6 – And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
Acts 21:19 – After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 22:21 – And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 26:17 – delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles–to whom I am sending you
Acts 26:20 – but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 11:13 – Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Gal 2:2 – I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Gal 2:8 – (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
Gal 2:9 – and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
Eph 3:1 – For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles–
1 Tim 2:7 – For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
2 Tim 4:17 – But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
The path of the expansion of the gospel—from Judah to the Gentiles
Mt 10:5 – These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:47 – For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
Acts 14:16 – In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 18:6 – And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
Acts 22:21 – And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 24:17 – Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
Acts 26:17 – delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles–to whom I am sending you
Acts 26:20 – but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
The difficulties in preaching the gospel
Mt 24:9 – "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Lk 21:24 – They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Acts 14:2 – But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Acts 14:5 – When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
Acts 18:6 – And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
Acts 21:11 – And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
Acts 21:11 – And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
Acts 24:10 – And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied:"Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
Acts 26:17 – delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles–to whom I am sending you
Acts 28:19 – But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar–though I had no charge to bring against my nation.
2 Cor 11:26 – on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;
Rev 11:2 – but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
Rev 11:9 – For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
The source of the message of the gospel—God’s revelation
Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Gal 2:2 – I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
After Gentiles believe in the Lord
Believe in the truth
Acts 11:1 – Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 15:19 – Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom 15:18 – For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience–by word and deed,
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
1 Tim 2:7 – For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Glorify and praise God
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Rom 15:9 – and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
Rom 15:10 – And again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people."
Rom 15:11 – And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him."
1 Pet 2:12 – Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Rev 15:3 – And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Be victorious
Rev 2:26 – The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Rev 13:7 – Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
Seek God
Acts 15:17 – that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Be called righteous and sanctified
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Offer
Rom 15:27 – They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Proclaim God
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Signs of the end time
Mt 24:7 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mt 24:9 – "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Mt 24:14 – And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Mk 13:8 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
Lk 21:10 – Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Lk 21:24 – They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Lk 21:25 – "And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
Acts 26:20 – but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Rom 11:25 – Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rev 11:2 – but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
Rev 11:9 – For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Mt 5:47 – And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Adverbs Modifying "Gentile" (ἐθνικός)
And, καί
Mt 5:47 – And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Prepositions with "Gentile" (ἐθνικός)
Just as, ὥσπερ
Mt 18:17 – If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
From, ἀπό
3 Jn 1:7 – For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
"Gentile" (ἐθνικός) and …
Tax collector, τελώνης
Mt 18:17 – If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Rom 11:11 – So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
You, σύ
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Water, ὕδωρ, ὕδατος
Rev 17:15 – And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
Verbs with "Gentiles" (ἔθνος) as Subject
To arise, ἐγείρω
Mt 24:7 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mk 13:8 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
Lk 21:10 – Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
To seek after, ἐπιζητέω
Mt 6:32 – For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Lk 12:30 – For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
To hope/expect, ἐλπίζω
Mt 12:21 – and in his name the Gentiles will hope."
Rom 15:12 – And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope."
To hear, ἀκούω
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
2 Tim 4:17 – But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
To walk, περιπατέω
Eph 4:17 – Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
Rev 21:24 – By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,
To assemble, συνάγω
Mt 25:32 – Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
To destroy, ἀπολλύω
Jn 11:50 – Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."
To deliver, παραδίδωμι
Jn 18:35 – Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?"
To rage, φρυάσσομαι
Acts 4:25 – who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
To receive, δέχομαι
Acts 11:1 – Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
To rejoice, χαίρω
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
To go, πορεύω
Acts 14:16 – In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
To do/make, ποιέω
Rom 2:14 – For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
To take/realize, καταλαμβάνω
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
To glorify, δοξάζω
Rom 15:9 – and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
To participate, κοινωνέω
Rom 15:27 – They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Be Jewish, Ἰουδαΐζω
Gal 2:14 – But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"
Be blessed, ἐνευλογέομαι
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
To be, εἰμί
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
To see, βλέπω
Rev 11:9 – For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
To anger, ὀργίζω
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
To come/be present, ἥκω
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
To drink, πίνω
Rev 18:3 – For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."
To lead astray, πλανάω
Rev 18:23 – and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
Verbs with "Gentiles" (ἔθνος) as Object
To lead astray, πλανάω
Rev 20:3 – and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
Rev 20:8 – and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
To disciple, μαθητεύω
Mt 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
To love, ἀγαπάω
Lk 7:5 – for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue."
To pervert, διαστρέφω
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
To take up, αἴρω
Jn 11:48 – If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
To judge, κρίνω
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
To amaze, ἐξίστημι
Acts 8:9 – But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.
To take down, καθαιρέω
Acts 13:19 – And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
To do/make, ποιέω
Acts 17:26 – And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
To accuse, κατηγορέω
Acts 28:19 – But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar–though I had no charge to bring against my nation.
To justify, δικαιόω
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
To buy, ἀγοράζω
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
To shepherd, ποιμαίνω
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
To water, ποτίζω
Rev 14:8 – Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
To strike, πατάσσω
Rev 19:15 – From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Verbs with "Gentiles" (ἔθνος) as Indirect Object
To deliver, παραδίδωμι
Mt 20:19 – and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day."
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Lk 18:32 – For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.
To give, δίδωμι
Mt 21:43 – Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
Acts 11:18 – When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life."
Rev 11:2 – but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
To announce, ἀπαγγέλλω
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:20 – but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
To preach, κηρύσσω
Mt 24:14 – And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
To open, ἀνοίγω
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
To proclaim, καταγγέλλω
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
To send, ἀποστέλλω
Acts 28:28 – Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen."
To speak good news, εὐαγγελίζομαι
Eph 3:8 – To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
To speak, λαλέω
1 Thess 2:16 – by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved–so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
Adjectives Modifying "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
All, πᾶς
Mt 24:9 – "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Mt 24:14 – And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Mt 25:32 – Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Mt 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mk 11:17 – And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."
Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
Lk 21:24 – They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 2:5 – Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Acts 10:35 – but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts 14:16 – In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 15:17 – that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
Acts 17:26 – And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom 15:11 – And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him."
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
2 Tim 4:17 – But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Rev 13:7 – Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Rev 14:8 – Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Rev 18:3 – For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."
Rev 18:23 – and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
Much, πολύς
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
Rev 10:11 – And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings."
All, ὅλος
Jn 11:50 – Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."
Acts 10:22 – And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say."
To do/make, ποιέω
Mt 21:43 – Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
Your, σός
Jn 18:35 – Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?"
To trust (in), πιστεύω
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
Remaining, λοιπός
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Senseless, ἀσύνετος
Rom 10:19 – But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
Holy, ἅγιος
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Adverbs Modifying "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
And, καί
Acts 11:1 – Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 11:18 – When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life."
Acts 15:17 – that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
Rom 3:29 – Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
1 Thess 4:5 – not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
No, οὐ
Rom 10:19 – But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
Words Modified by "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
Be first, ἄρχω
Mk 10:42 – And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Rom 15:12 – And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope."
Testimony, μαρτύριον
Mt 10:18 – and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
To call, καλέω
Mk 11:17 – And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers."
To be, γίνομαι
Acts 24:2 – And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying:"Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,
To be, εἰμί
Acts 24:10 – And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied:"Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
Predicates of "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
Co-heir, συγκληρονόμος
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Sharer, συμμέτοχος
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Of the same body, σύσσωμος
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Appositions with "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
The/this/who, ὁ
Acts 2:5 – Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Rev 20:8 – and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
To have/be, ἔχω
Rom 2:14 – For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
To pursue, διώκω
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
To know, εἴδω
1 Thess 4:5 – not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Gog, Γώγ
Rev 20:8 – and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
Magog, Μαγώγ
Rev 20:8 – and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
Prepositions with "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
In/on/among, ἐν
Acts 10:35 – but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts 15:12 – And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Acts 21:19 – After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 26:4 – "My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 2:24 – For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
Rom 15:9 – and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
1 Cor 5:1 – It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Gal 2:2 – I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
1 Pet 2:12 – Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Toward, εἰς
Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
Lk 21:24 – They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Lk 24:47 – and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 18:6 – And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
Acts 22:21 – And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 24:17 – Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
Gal 2:8 – (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
Gal 2:9 – and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Mt 24:7 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mk 13:8 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
Lk 21:10 – Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Acts 10:45 – And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Rom 10:19 – But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
Rev 2:26 – The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
Rev 10:11 – And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings."
Rev 13:7 – Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Of/from, ἐκ
Acts 15:14 – Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.
Acts 15:23 – with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.
Acts 26:17 – delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles–to whom I am sending you
Rom 9:24 – even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
2 Cor 11:26 – on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;
Gal 2:15 – We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
Rev 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 11:9 – For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
By/under, ὑπό
Mt 24:9 – "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Lk 21:24 – They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Acts 10:22 – And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say."
Above/for, ὑπέρ
Jn 11:51 – He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
Jn 11:52 – and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
From, ἀπό
Acts 2:5 – Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Acts 15:19 – Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
With, σύν
Acts 4:27 – for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
Before, ἐνώπιον
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
According to, κατά
Acts 21:21 – and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.
About, περί
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
With/after, μετά
Gal 2:12 – For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.
"Gentiles" (ἔθνος) with Prepositions
In/on/among, ἐν
Acts 13:19 – And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
Eph 2:11 – Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands–
With, σύν
Acts 14:5 – When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
… of "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
King, βασιλεύς
Lk 22:25 – And he said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.
Rev 15:3 – And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Father, πατήρ
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
Galilee, Γαλιλαία
Mt 4:15 – "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles–
Road, ὁδός
Mt 10:5 – These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,
Ruler, ἄρχων
Mt 20:25 – But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Revelation, ἀποκάλυψις
Lk 2:32 – a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."
Time/right time, καιρός
Lk 21:24 – They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Anguish, συνοχή
Lk 21:25 – "And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
Possession, κατάσχεσις
Acts 7:45 – Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,
Light, φῶς
Acts 13:47 – For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
Soul, ψυχή
Acts 14:2 – But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Impulse, ὁρμή
Acts 14:5 – When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
Conversion, ἐπιστροφή
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Hand, χείρ
Acts 21:11 – And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
Riches, πλοῦτος
Rom 11:12 – Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
Apostle, ἀπόστολος
Rom 11:13 – Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
Fulfillment, πλήρωμα
Rom 11:25 – Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Offering, προσφορά
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Obedience, ὑπακοή
Rom 15:18 – For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience–by word and deed,
Assembly, ἐκκλησία
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
Teacher, διδάσκαλος
1 Tim 2:7 – For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Plan, βούλημα
1 Pet 4:3 – The time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
City, πόλις
Rev 16:19 – The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
Glory, δόξα
Rev 21:26 – They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
Honor, τιμή
Rev 21:26 – They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
Service, θεραπεία
Rev 22:2 – through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
"Gentiles" (ἔθνος) of …
I/we, ἐγώ
Lk 7:5 – for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue."
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Jn 11:48 – If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
Acts 24:17 – Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
Acts 26:4 – "My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
Acts 28:19 – But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar–though I had no charge to bring against my nation.
World, κόσμος
Lk 12:30 – For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
Samaria, Σαμάρεια
Acts 8:9 – But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.
Jewish, Ἰουδαῖος
Acts 10:22 – And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say."
A human, ἄνθρωπος
Acts 17:26 – And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Verbal Copula of "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
To be, εἰμί
1 Cor 12:2 – You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
Rev 17:15 – And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
… and "Gentiles" (ἔθνος)
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Mt 10:18 – and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
"Gentiles" (ἔθνος) and …
High-priest, ἀρχιερεύς
Jn 18:35 – Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?"
A people, λαός
Acts 4:27 – for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
King, βασιλεύς
Acts 9:15 – But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
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<topic id=“545” startswith=“” nth=“”>“Nation” in the Old Testament</topic>
Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Deut 32:28 – "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
Josh 3:17 – Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Josh 4:1 – When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Josh 5:8 – When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Josh 10:13 – And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Judah
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 31:36 – "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Ezek 35:10 – "Because you said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them'–although the LORD was there–
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Zeph 2:1 – Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation,
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Mal 3:9 – You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
Babylon
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 6:22 – Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Joel 1:6 – For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Persia
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Sons of Moses
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 9:14 – Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Goiim
Gen 14:1 – In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
Gen 14:9 – with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
Josh 12:23 – the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one;
Egypt
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Ex 9:24 – There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Lam 4:17 – Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Sons of Ishmael
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Sons of Ham
Gen 10:20 – These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Sons of Shem
Gen 10:31 – These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Negeb
Gen 20:4 – Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Syrians
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Moab
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Assyria
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Cherethites
Zeph 2:5 – Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
Relationship between God and nation
God owns the nations
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Ps 2:8 – Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 78:55 – He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
God controls the future of the nations
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
Num 24:20 – Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Jer 4:7 – A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
Jer 6:18 – Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Jer 22:8 – "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"
Jer 27:13 – Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 28:11 – And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years." But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.
Jer 28:14 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"
Jer 46:1 – The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Ezek 4:13 – And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 36:3 – therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Dan 8:22 – As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
Dan 11:23 – And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.
God gives and takes authority and glory
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 7:17 – "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 33:10 – The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Jer 49:15 – For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind.
Lam 4:20 – The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."
Obad 1:2 – Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
God rules over the nations
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 44:2 – you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Ps 94:10 – He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge–
What nations ought to do
Listen to God’s words
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 9:1 – "Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 20:15 – Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Kgs 21:9 – But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
Isa 34:1 – Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.
Jer 6:18 – Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Be holy
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Num 23:9 – For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
Prov 14:34 – Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Obey and worship God
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
Ps 22:27 – All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Praise God
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Ps 18:49 – For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name.
Ps 96:3 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 117:1 – Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Historical actions of the nations
The chosen nation
Follow the gentiles
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
1 Kgs 14:24 – and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 16:3 – but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 17:8 – and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kgs 21:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 28:3 – and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 33:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Ps 106:35 – but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
Jer 9:26 – Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
Jer 10:2 – Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Disobey God, transgress the commandments
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hab 1:5 – "Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
Hag 2:14 – Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
Mal 3:9 – You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
Worship idols
1 Kgs 14:24 – and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 16:3 – but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
2 Chr 28:3 – and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Jer 2:11 – Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Sin
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Forsake God
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jer 2:11 – Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Jer 18:13 – "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Worship God
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
2 Sam 22:50 – "For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.
2 Chr 32:23 – And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
Ezra 6:21 – It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by everyone who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Executes judgement and mercy according to the law
Lev 25:44 – As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
Neh 5:17 – Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Unchosen nations
Attack and blaspheme against God’s kingdom
Num 14:15 – Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,
Neh 6:6 – In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.
Ps 2:1 – Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Ps 44:14 – You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 83:4 – They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
Ps 106:41 – he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.
Ps 115:2 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 29:7 – And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Jer 4:16 – Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Ezek 36:3 – therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Joel 1:6 – For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Mic 4:11 – Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Zech 1:21 – And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Zech 2:8 – For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Be violent, proud and treacherous
Deut 28:50 – a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
2 Kgs 18:33 – Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Neh 6:6 – In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.
Ps 9:15 – The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their own foot has been caught.
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Isa 14:18 – All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
Isa 16:8 – For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide,to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
Isa 23:3 – And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Hab 1:6 – For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
Hab 1:17 – Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Hab 2:5 – "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Hab 2:8 – Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
War against one another
Gen 14:9 – with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Chr 15:6 – They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
Isa 10:7 – But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
Isa 14:12 – "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 16:8 – For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
Isa 37:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Jer 51:28 – Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
Jer 51:41 – "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Ezek 19:4 – The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Ezek 19:8 – Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:We have heard a report from the Lord,and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Worship idols
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
Ps 135:15 – The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Isa 45:20 – "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
Jer 14:22 – Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Disobey and oppose God
Ps 2:1 – Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 115:2 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Commit wickedness
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Jer 51:7 – Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
Nah 3:4 – And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.
Do not know God
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
The end of nations
Negative
Be destroyed by God
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
2 Kgs 21:9 – But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 33:9 – Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Isa 30:28 – his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Zeph 2:5 – Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Zeph 3:6 – "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Hag 2:22 – and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Zech 9:10 – I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Be punished by God
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
2 Chr 15:6 – They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:We have heard a report from the Lord,and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Zech 14:18 – And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Zech 14:19 – This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Suffer shame
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 9:20 – Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah
Ps 33:10 – The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Jer 46:12 – The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."
Jer 50:23 – How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Jer 50:46 – At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."
Lam 1:1 – How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.
Lam 4:15 – "Away! Unclean!" people cried at them. "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Ezek 31:12 – Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
Ezek 32:9 – "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Hos 8:8 – Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Obad 1:2 – Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Nah 3:5 – Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.
Provoke God’s wrath and detested by God
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Return to Sheol
Ps 9:17 – The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Isa 14:9 – Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
Isa 14:12 – "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 14:18 – All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
Ezek 31:16 – I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.
Ezek 31:17 – They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.
Ezek 32:18 – "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
Receive God’s vengeance
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Can not receive rest
Lam 1:3 – Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Positive
Receive salvation
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Receive honor
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
God’s characteristics
Awesome, may be provoked to anger
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Deut 32:21 – They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Neh 6:16 – And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Job 34:29 – When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?–
Ps 9:20 – Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah
Ps 46:6 – The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 14:6 – that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Isa 33:3 – At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 25:15 – Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Hab 3:12 – You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.
Zeph 2:11 – The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
Holy
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Ezek 36:21 – But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
Ezek 36:22 – "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:7 – "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Eternal
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Noble
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 96:3 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Isa 40:15 – Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Isa 40:17 – All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
Good
Faithful and keeps His covenant
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 31:36 – "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."
Just/Righteous
Ps 96:10 – Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Holy
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Almighty
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
All knowing
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
True
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Promises given by God
The promise of establishing a great nation
Genealogy
Abraham
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Sarah
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Isaac
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Jacob
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
David
2 Sam 22:44 – "You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Land/Inheritance
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 12:29 – "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deut 19:1 – "When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Ps 2:8 – Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 105:44 – And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 54:3 – For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Amos 9:12 – that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this.
Blessings
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
Jer 31:7 – For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 36:30 – I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Mal 3:12 – Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.
Honor
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 60:11 – Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Isa 61:6 – but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Population
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
A great name
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
The promise of God’s judgment
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 29:7 – And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isa 30:28 – his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 6:18 – Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 29:18 – I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 50:12 – your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jer 51:44 – And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Ezek 4:13 – And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Ezek 22:16 – And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 25:8 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Ezek 30:3 – For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Ezek 32:9 – "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Ezek 32:16 – This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
The promise of God’s comfort and salvation
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
2 Kgs 18:33 – Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
2 Chr 32:17 – And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand."
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Isa 36:18 – Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isa 37:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 31:7 – For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Dan 12:1 – "At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
Joel 2:19 – The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Zech 8:13 – And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."
The promise that men will know God
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 22:16 – And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:21 – But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
Ezek 36:22 – "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:36 – Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:7 – "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
The promise that all nations will come to God
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Ps 22:27 – All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide,to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 60:11 – Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 16:19 – O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Mic 4:2 – and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Mic 7:16 – The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
Zech 8:23 – Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
The promise that God’s kingdom will receive glory
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 61:6 – but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Isa 66:8 – Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.
Isa 66:12 – For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
The promise of peace
Ex 34:24 – For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Isa 66:12 – For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
Ezek 34:28 – They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezek 34:29 – And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
The promise of return
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
The promise of victory
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
2 Sam 22:44 – "You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Mic 5:8 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
The promise of raising a mediator
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
The promise of mercy
Jer 18:8 – and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Jer 27:11 – But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD."'"
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
The promise of blessing the unchosen nations
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
The promise of the repentance of the chosen people
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Joel 2:17 – Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
The promise of exercising righteousness
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
The promise of cleansing
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
The actions God takes towards the nations
Warn
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deut 28:49 – The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
Deut 28:65 – And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Deut 29:18 – Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Josh 23:13 – know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Establishe
A signal
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
A covenant
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
People
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Nations
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
God’s mountain
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Borders
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
God’s name
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Bring attacks and wars
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Deut 28:49 – The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 13:4 – The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Jer 49:36 – And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Jer 51:28 – Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Joel 3:9 – Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
Joel 3:11 – Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:We have heard a report from the Lord,and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
Scatter
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Ps 44:11 – You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 106:27 – and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Jer 49:36 – And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
Lam 2:9 – Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 20:23 – Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Zech 1:21 – And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Gather
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 13:4 – The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
Isa 45:20 – "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:11 – Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
Zeph 2:1 – Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation,
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Lead
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."
Num 24:8 – God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 80:8 – You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ezek 5:5 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Ezek 20:9 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezek 20:14 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:22 – But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Bring the chosen people victory and glory
Josh 10:13 – And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
2 Chr 32:23 – And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
Ps 44:2 – you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
Ps 78:55 – He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Ps 126:2 – Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Punish the chosen people
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judg 2:21 – I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
Judg 2:23 – So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Ps 44:11 – You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 44:14 – You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Bless
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Abide
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Zech 8:23 – Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
Create
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Jer 14:22 – Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
Commend
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Lam 1:10 – The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Listen to prayers
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Test
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Judg 3:1 – Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
They, הֵם
Deut 32:28 – "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
These, אֵהֶל
Judg 3:1 – Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
He, הוּא
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
This, זֶה
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Whole, כֹּל
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Verbs with "Nation" (גֹּוי) as Subject
Know, דָּעָה
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
Ps 9:20 – Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:36 – Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 39:7 – "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Be, הָיָה
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
Jer 49:36 – And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
Dan 12:1 – "At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
Work, serve, עָבַד
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Come, בֹּוא
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Jer 16:19 – O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Lam 1:10 – The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
Bless, בָּרַךְ
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Say, אָמַר
Num 14:15 – Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 115:2 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Be complete, תָּמַם
Josh 3:17 – Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Josh 4:1 – When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Josh 5:8 – When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
See, רָאָה
Neh 6:16 – And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Mic 7:16 – The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
Hear, שָׁמַע
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Jer 46:12 – The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."
Ezek 19:4 – The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Ascend, עָלָה
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Joel 1:6 – For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Pass over, עָבַר
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
Jer 22:8 – "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"
Perish, אָבַד
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Be happy, אָשַׁר
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Mal 3:12 – Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.
Flow, נָהַר
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Jer 51:44 – And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Lift, נָשָׂא
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Walk, הָלַךְ
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Mic 4:2 – and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Be awake, עוּר
Jer 6:22 – Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Drink, שָׁתָה
Jer 51:7 – Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Gather, אָסַף
Mic 4:11 – Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Divide, פָּרַד
Gen 10:32 – These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Be unclean, טָמֵא
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Avenge, נָקַם
Josh 10:13 – And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Be able, יָכֹל
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Be in turmoil, רָגַשׁ
Ps 2:1 – Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Sink, טָבַע
Ps 9:15 – The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their own foot has been caught.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Make noise, הָמָה
Ps 46:6 – The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
Fear, יָרֵא
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Turn, סָבַב
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Inquire, דַּרְיׄושׁ
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Shatter, נָפַץ
Isa 33:3 – At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
Collect, קָבַץ
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Run, רוּץ
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Be waste, חָרֵב
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Quake, רָגַז
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Bear, יָלַד
Isa 66:8 – Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.
Exchange, מוּר
Jer 2:11 – Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Wait for, קָוָה
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Be terrified, חָתַת
Jer 10:2 – Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
Comprehend, כּוּל
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Return, שׁוּב
Jer 18:8 – and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Be boastful, הָלַל
Jer 51:7 – Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
Give, נָתַן
Ezek 19:8 – Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
Sit, יָשַׁב
Ezek 31:6 – All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Rule, מָשַׁל
Joel 2:17 – Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
Take possession, נָחַל
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Borrow, לָוָה
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Verbs with "Nation" (גֹּוי) as Object
Possess, יָרַשׁ
Ex 34:24 – For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 9:1 – "Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
Josh 23:13 – know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
Ps 44:2 – you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
Isa 54:3 – For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
Cut, כָּרַת
Deut 12:29 – "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deut 19:1 – "When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Isa 10:7 – But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
Zeph 3:6 – "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
Drive out, גָּרַשׁ
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Ps 78:55 – He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Ps 80:8 – You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Gather, אָסַף
Hab 2:5 – "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Kill, הָרַג
Gen 20:4 – Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Hab 1:17 – Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Draw off, נָשַׁל
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Lift, נָשָׂא
Deut 28:49 – The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
Deut 28:50 – a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
Destroy, שָׁמַד
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Strike, נָכָה
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Give, נָתַן
Ps 2:8 – Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Collect, קָבַץ
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Come, בֹּוא
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Give drink, שָׁקָה
Jer 25:15 – Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Jer 25:17 – So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:
Be holy, קָדַשׁ
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Jer 51:28 – Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
Quake, רָעַשׁ
Ezek 31:16 – I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Stumble, כָּשַׁל
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Judge, דֹּון
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Vomit, קִיא
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Eat, אָכַל
Num 24:8 – God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.
Take, לָקַח
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Borrow, עָבַט
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Borrow, לָוָה
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Take possession, נָחַל
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Fall, נָפַל
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Settle, נוּחַ
Judg 2:23 – So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Swear, שָׁבַע
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
Be waste, חָרֵב
2 Kgs 19:17 – Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
Rebuke, גָּעַר
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Attend to, פָּקַד
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Be high, רוּם
Prov 14:34 – Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Be much, הַרְבָּה
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Have dominion, רָדָה
Isa 14:6 – that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
Subdue, רָדַד
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Spurt, נָזָה
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Call, קָרָא
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Root out, נָתַשׁ
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Shatter, נָפַץ
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Ascend, עָלָה
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Arise, קוּם
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Do, עָשָׂה
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Sell, מָכַר
Nah 3:4 – And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.
See, רָאָה
Nah 3:5 – Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.
Spoil, שָׁלַל
Hab 2:8 – Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
Be free, נָתַר
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Tread on, דּוּשׁ
Hab 3:12 – You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.
Hurt, נָגַף
Zech 14:18 – And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Verbs with "Nation" (גֹּוי) as Indirect Object
Do, עָשָׂה
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 9:14 – Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Be dispersed, פּוּץ
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 20:23 – Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Give, נָתַן
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Be, הָיָה
Ex 9:24 – There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Jer 46:1 – The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 34:28 – They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Walk, הָלַךְ
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Send, שָׁלַח
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Zech 2:8 – For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Lift, נָשָׂא
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isa 49:22 – Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Speak, דָּבַר
Jer 18:7 – If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
Jer 27:13 – Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Zech 9:10 – I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Come, בֹּוא
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Say, אָמַר
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
Ps 96:10 – Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Go out, יָצָא
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Attend to, פָּקַד
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Avenge, נָקַם
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Rule, מָשַׁל
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Sell, מָכַר
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Look out, צָפָה
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Lam 4:17 – Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Pour, שֶׂפֶק
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Collect, קָבַץ
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Scatter, זָרָה
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Perish, אָבַד
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Account, חָשַׁב
Num 23:9 – For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!
Cling, cleave to, דָּבַק
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Be holy, קָדַשׁ
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
Count, סָפַר
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Deliver, נָצַל
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
Be great, שָׂגָא
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Spread, שָׁטַח
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Contend, רִיב
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Be king, מָלַךְ
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Mock, לָעַג
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Take possession, נָחַל
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Fall, נָפַל
Ps 106:27 – and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
Stand bail, עָרַב
Ps 106:35 – but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
Judge, דֹּון
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Be high, רוּם
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Interweave, נָסַךְ
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Add, יָסַף
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Sprout, צָמַח
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Remember, זָכַר
Jer 4:16 – Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
Ask, שָׁאַל
Jer 18:13 – "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Speak as prophet, נָבָא
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Return, שׁוּב
Jer 43:5 – But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven–
Cut, כָּרַת
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Ascend, עָלָה
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Report, נָגַד
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Hear, שָׁמַע
Jer 50:46 – At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."
Sit, יָשַׁב
Lam 1:3 – Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Be far, רָחַק
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Fornicate, זָנָה
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Have dominion, רָדָה
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Take, לָקַח
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Gather, אָסַף
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Uncover, גָּלָה
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Stand, עָמַד
Dan 8:22 – As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
Flee, נָדַד
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Scatter, פָּזַר
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Quiver, נוּעַ
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Reprove, יָכַח
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Be angry, קָצַף
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Be stormy, סָעַר
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Fight, לָחַם
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
Remain, יָתַר
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
Adjectives Modifying "Nation" (גֹּוי)
These, אֵהֶל
Deut 7:17 – "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Deut 20:15 – Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Josh 23:13 – know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
Judg 2:23 – So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 28:14 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"
Much, רַב
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Jer 22:8 – "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 31:6 – All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:27 – when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.
Mic 4:2 – and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:11 – Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
Hab 2:8 – Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Great, גָּבֹול
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
Jer 6:22 – Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Mighty, עָצוּם
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
This, זֶה
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Hag 2:14 – Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
Ruthless, עָרִיץ
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 31:12 – Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
They, הֵם
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
Deut 28:65 – And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Deut 29:18 – Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
He, הוּא
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 18:8 – and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Just, צַדִּיק
Gen 20:4 – Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Holy, קָדֹושׁ
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
These, אֵל
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Strong, עַז
Deut 28:50 – a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
Stupid, נָבָל
Deut 32:21 – They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Perish, אָבַד
Deut 32:28 – "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
Remain, שָׁאַר
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Loyal, חָסִיד
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Miss, חָטָא
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Alienated, חָנֵף
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Pull off, מָרַט
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Draw, מָשַׁךְ
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Ever-flowing, אֵיתָן
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Quiet, שָׁלֵו
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Evil, רַע
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Mighty, אַדִּיר
Ezek 32:18 – "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
Not, הֲלֹא
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Remote, רָחֹוק
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Hasten, מָהַר
Hab 1:6 – For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
Bitter, מַר
Hab 1:6 – For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
At ease, שַׁאֲנָן
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Predicate Complements of "Nation" (גֹּוי)
In, among, בְּ
Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Isa 30:28 – his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Out of, מִן
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Isa 40:15 – Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Be, הָיָה
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Jer 31:36 – "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."
People, עַם
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Who, מִי
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Like, as, כְּ
Isa 40:15 – Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Isa 40:17 – All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Understand, בִּין
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Wise, חָכָם
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Much, רַב
Deut 7:17 – "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'
Do, עָשָׂה
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
Fear, יָרֵא
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
Uncircumcised, עָרֵל
Jer 9:26 – Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
To, for, לְ
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
So, כֵּן
Hag 2:14 – Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
Appositions with "Nation" (גֹּוי)
Remain, שָׁאַר
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Whole, כֹּל
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Mal 3:9 – You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
Man, אִישׁ
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Be hostile, אֹיֵב
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Son, בֵּן
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Seed, זֶרַע
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
People, עַם
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Lud, לוּד
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Pul, פּוּל
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Tarshish, תַּרְשִׁישׁ
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Prepositions with "Nation" (גֹּוי)
In, among, בְּ
Gen 10:5 – From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Gen 10:20 – These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 10:32 – These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Num 23:9 – For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 28:65 – And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Deut 32:21 – They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
2 Sam 22:50 – "For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
2 Chr 15:6 – They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
Neh 6:6 – In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Ps 18:49 – For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 44:11 – You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 44:14 – You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 96:3 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 96:10 – Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
Ps 106:27 – and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
Ps 106:35 – but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Ps 126:2 – Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Jer 18:13 – "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 29:18 – I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Jer 49:15 – For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind.
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Jer 50:23 – How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Jer 50:46 – At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Jer 51:41 – "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Lam 1:1 – How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.
Lam 1:3 – Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Lam 2:9 – Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Lam 4:15 – "Away! Unclean!" people cried at them. "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."
Lam 4:20 – The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."
Ezek 4:13 – And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 20:23 – Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 32:9 – "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Ezek 36:21 – But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
Ezek 36:22 – "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:30 – I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Dan 11:23 – And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.
Hos 8:8 – Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Joel 2:19 – The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:9 – Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Obad 1:2 – Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
Mic 5:8 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
Hab 1:5 – "Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
Zech 8:13 – And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
To, for, לְ
Gen 10:31 – These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Ex 9:24 – There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 9:14 – Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Jer 4:16 – Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 34:28 – They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zech 9:10 – I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Above, עַל
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
Job 34:29 – When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?–
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Isa 14:12 – "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 14:26 – This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 18:7 – If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Jer 46:1 – The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Out of, מִן
Judg 2:21 – I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
2 Kgs 21:9 – But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
2 Chr 33:9 – Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
Neh 5:17 – Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Ps 83:4 – They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Jer 43:5 – But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven–
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Dan 8:22 – As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
To, אֶל
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 49:22 – Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Jer 27:13 – Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Lam 4:17 – Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Zech 2:8 – For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Like, as, כְּ
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 25:8 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'
The hinder, אַחַר
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
[object marker], אֵת
Lev 25:44 – As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
Interval, בַּיִן
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Counterpart, נֶגֶד
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
… of "Nation" (גֹּוי)
Whole, כֹּל
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Josh 3:17 – Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Josh 4:1 – When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Josh 5:8 – When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
2 Chr 32:23 – And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
Neh 6:16 – And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Ps 9:17 – The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Ps 117:1 – Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 14:26 – This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 29:7 – And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Isa 40:17 – All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isa 52:10 – The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Jer 9:26 – Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 25:15 – Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Jer 25:17 – So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Jer 28:11 – And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years." But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.
Jer 28:14 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Jer 29:18 – I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Jer 43:5 – But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven–
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Ezek 25:8 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'
Ezek 31:6 – All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:11 – Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Amos 9:12 – that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Hab 2:5 – "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zech 14:14 – Even Judah will fight against Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
Zech 14:19 – This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Mal 3:12 – Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.
Eye, עֹונָה
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 20:9 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezek 20:14 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:22 – But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 22:16 – And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:27 – when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Deut 29:18 – Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
2 Kgs 18:33 – Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
2 Chr 32:17 – And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand."
Isa 36:18 – Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isa 37:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Abomination, תֹּועֵבָה
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
1 Kgs 14:24 – and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 16:3 – but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 21:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 28:3 – and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 33:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
King, מֶלֶךְ
Gen 14:1 – In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
Gen 14:9 – with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
Josh 12:23 – the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one;
Isa 14:9 – Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
Isa 14:18 – All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Two, שְׁנַיִם
Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Ezek 35:10 – "Because you said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them'–although the LORD was there–
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Head, רֹאשׁ
2 Sam 22:44 – "You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Jer 31:7 – For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Justice, מִשְׁפָּט
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Kingdom, מַמְלָכָה
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Isa 13:4 – The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
Hag 2:22 – and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.
Power, חַיִל
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 60:11 – Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
Isa 61:6 – but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Insult, כְּלִמָּה
Ezek 34:29 – And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Rest, שְׁאֵרִית
Ezek 36:3 – therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Coast, island, אִי
Gen 10:5 – From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Zeph 2:11 – The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
Sound, הָמֹון
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Assembly, קָהָל
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Regulation, חֻקָּה
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
2 Kgs 17:8 – and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.
Beginning, רֵאשִׁית
Num 24:20 – Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."
Amos 6:1 – "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!
Interior, קֶרֶב
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut 29:16 – "You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
Possess, יָרַשׁ
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Remainder, יֶתֶר
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Light, אֹור
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Midst, תָּוֶךְ
Ezek 5:5 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Ezek 31:17 – They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.
Daughter, בַּת
Ezek 32:16 – This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 32:18 – "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
Fullness, מְלֹא
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
City, עִיר
Deut 20:15 – Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
Uncleanness, טֻמְאָה
Ezra 6:21 – It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by everyone who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Reproach, חֶרְפָּה
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Clan, מִשְׁפָּחָה
Ps 22:27 – All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Counsel, עֵצָה
Ps 33:10 – The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Happiness, אֶשֶׁר
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Admonish, יָסַר
Ps 94:10 – He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge–
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ps 105:44 – And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,
Joy, שִׂמְחָה
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Hand, יָד
Ps 106:41 – he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.
Heritage, נַחֲלָה
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Image, עָצָב
Ps 135:15 – The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Galilee, גָּלִיל
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Messenger, מַלְאָךְ
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Lord, baal, בָּעַל
Isa 16:8 – For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
Gain, סָחַר
Isa 23:3 – And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.
Town, קִרְיָה
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Escaped one, פָּלִיט
Isa 45:20 – "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
Be abhorrent, תָּעַב
Isa 49:7 – Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
Milk, חָלָב
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Weight, כָּבֹוד
Isa 66:12 – For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
Army, צָבָא
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Destroy, שָׁחַת
Jer 4:7 – A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
Way, דֶּרֶךְ
Jer 10:2 – Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
Wise, חָכָם
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Breath, הֶבֶל
Jer 14:22 – Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
End, אַחֲרִית
Jer 50:12 – your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Time, עֵת
Ezek 30:3 – For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
God, אֵל
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Young lion, כְּפִיר
Ezek 32:2 – "Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.
Be bereaved, מְשַׁכֶּלֶת
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Interval, בַּיִן
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Little, מְעַט
Dan 11:23 – And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.
Alive, חַי
Zeph 2:14 – Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
Horn, קֶרֶן
Zech 1:21 – And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Tongue, לָשֹׁון
Zech 8:23 – Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
"Nation" (גֹּוי) of …
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:17 – And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand."
Ezra 6:21 – It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by everyone who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Them
Gen 10:5 – From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Gen 10:20 – These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 10:31 – These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 10:32 – These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
You
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Subjugation, מְבוּסָה
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
[uncertain], קָו
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
You
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Cherethite, כְּרֵתִי
Zeph 2:5 – Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
I
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
… and "Nation" (גֹּוי)
Kingdom, מַמְלָכָה
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
Whole, כֹּל
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Nation, גֹּוי
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
God, אֱלֹוהַּ
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Sit, יָשַׁב
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
King, מֶלֶךְ
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Judah, יְהוּדָה
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
People, עַם
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
Sin, חַטָּאָה
Zech 14:19 – This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
"Nation" (גֹּוי) and …
Kingdom, מַמְלָכָה
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Jer 18:7 – If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
King, מֶלֶךְ
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Assembly, קָהָל
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
Nation, גֹּוי
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
Earth, אֶרֶץ
2 Kgs 19:17 – Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
Human, mankind, אָדָם
Job 34:29 – When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?–
Tongue, לָשֹׁון
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Whole, כֹּל
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Place, מָקֹום
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
"Nation" (גֹּוי) as Adjunct of …
Seven, שֶׁבַע
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Adjunct of "Nation" (גֹּוי)
One, אֶחָד
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
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Church throughout a region (Acts 9:31; 2 Cor 8:1; Gal 1:2, 22; 1 Thess 2:14; Rev 1:4)
Churches of the Gentiles (Rom 16:4)
Church in someone’s house (Rom 16:5; Col 4:15; Philem 2)
Universal church (Acts 20:28; Gal 1:13; Eph 3:10, 21; 5:23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 32; Php 3:6; Col 1:18, 24; 1 Tim 3:5, 15)
God and the church
The church belongs to God
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 10:32 – Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1 Cor 11:16 – If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
1 Cor 11:22 – What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
1 Cor 15:9 – For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Gal 1:13 – For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
2 Thess 1:4 – Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
1 Tim 3:5 – for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
God adds members to the church
Acts 2:41 – So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:47 – praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
God has obtained her with his own blood
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
God empowers members with gifts
1 Cor 12:6 – and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
God arranged the members
1 Cor 12:18 – But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
God gave Christ as head over all things to the church
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
The growth of the church is from God
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
God has called us into the church
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Christ and the church
Christ is the head and the church is His body
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Eph 4:15 – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Col 1:18 – And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
The church belongs to Jesus Christ
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Eph 5:27 – so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Cf. Rev 21:2, 9
Christ appoints gifts in the church
1 Cor 12:5 – and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
Eph 4:11 – And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Christ builds the church
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Christ Jesus is the cornerstone of the church
Eph 2:20 – built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Christ is the head over all things to the church
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Christ is the Savior of the church
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
The church submits to Christ
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Christ cleanses the church and sanctifies her
Eph 5:26 – that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Christ presents the church to Himself
Eph 5:27 – so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
The Holy Spirit and the church
The Spirit distributes gifts in the church
1 Cor 12:7 – To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1 Cor 12:8 – To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
1 Cor 12:9 – to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Cor 12:10 – to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Cor 12:11 – All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
In one Spirit we were all baptized into one body
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
The church is the dwelling place for God by the Spirit
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Analogies of the church
Body
1 Cor 10:17 – Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Cor 12:15 – If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Cor 12:16 – And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Cor 12:17 – If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
1 Cor 12:18 – But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Cor 12:19 – If all were a single member, where would the body be?
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:22 – On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1 Cor 12:23 – and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
1 Cor 12:24 – which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 4:16 – from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Col 1:18 – And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Cf. Eph 3:6
House of God
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
1 Pet 4:17 – For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Cf. Eph 2:19 [footnote text=“The Greek term in this verse, <i>oikeioi</i>, οἰκεῖοι, means members of a household. It is a cognate of <i>oikos</i>, οἶκος ("household").”]
Spiritual house, holy priesthood
1 Pet 2:5 – you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Jerusalem above, the city of the living God, mother
Gal 4:26 – But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Heb 12:22 – But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
Rev 21:2 – And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:10 – And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
Cf. Rev 20:9
Bride, wife of the Lamb
Rev 21:2 – And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:9 – Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."
Cf. Eph 5:25-32
Fullness of him who fills all in all
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Building and holy temple
Eph 2:21 – in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
God’s temple
1 Cor 3:16 – Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Dwelling place of God
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Pillar and buttress of truth
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Assembly of the firstborn
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Elect lady
2 Jn 1:1 – The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
Lampstand
Rev 1:20 – As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Woman
Rev 12:1 – And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Rev 12:2 – She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.
Rev 12:4 – His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Rev 12:6 – and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
Rev 12:13 – And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
Rev 12:14 – But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
Rev 12:15 – The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
Rev 12:16 – But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
Rev 12:17 – Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
Camp of the saints
Rev 20:9 – And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
Other terms referring to believers in general
Brothers, sisters
Mt 25:40 – And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
Mt 28:10 – Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."
Lk 22:32 – but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers."
Jn 20:17 – Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Jn 21:23 – So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"
Acts 9:30 – And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 10:23 – So he invited them in to be his guests.The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
Acts 11:1 – Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 11:12 – And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
Acts 11:29 – So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
Acts 12:17 – But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place.
Acts 14:2 – But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Acts 15:1 – But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:13 – After they finished speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me.
Acts 15:22 – Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,
Acts 15:23 – with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.
Acts 15:32 – And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.
Acts 15:33 – And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.
Acts 15:36 – And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."
Acts 15:40 – but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.
Acts 16:2 – He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium.
Acts 16:40 – So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed.
Acts 17:6 – And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Acts 17:10 – The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17:14 – Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.
Acts 18:18 – After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Acts 21:7 – When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day.
Acts 21:17 – When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
Acts 28:14 – There we found brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.
Acts 28:15 – And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage.
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 7:1 – Or do you not know, brothers–for I am speaking to those who know the law–that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
Rom 7:4 – Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Rom 8:12 – So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Rom 8:29 – For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Rom 9:3 – For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
Rom 10:1 – Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
Rom 11:25 – Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rom 12:1 – I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Rom 14:13 – Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Rom 14:15 – For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
Rom 14:21 – It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
Rom 15:14 – I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
Rom 15:30 – I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
Rom 16:1 – I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Jas 2:15 – If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
Rom 16:14 – Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
Rom 16:17 – I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
Rom 16:23 – Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
1 Cor 1:1 – Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
1 Cor 1:10 – I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Cor 1:11 – For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
1 Cor 1:26 – For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
1 Cor 2:1 – And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
1 Cor 3:1 – But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Cor 4:6 – I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
1 Cor 5:11 – But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler–not even to eat with such a one.
1 Cor 6:5 – I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
1 Cor 6:6 – but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
1 Cor 6:8 – But you yourselves wrong and defraud–even your own brothers!
1 Cor 7:12 – To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
1 Cor 7:14 – For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
1 Cor 7:15 – But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
1 Cor 7:24 – So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.
1 Cor 7:29 – This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
1 Cor 8:11 – And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 8:12 – Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
1 Cor 8:13 – Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
1 Cor 9:5 – Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
1 Cor 10:1 – I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
1 Cor 11:33 – So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another–
1 Cor 12:1 – Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
1 Cor 14:6 – Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
1 Cor 14:20 – Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
1 Cor 14:26 – What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
1 Cor 14:39 – So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
1 Cor 15:1 – Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
1 Cor 15:6 – Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
1 Cor 15:31 – I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
1 Cor 15:50 – I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1 Cor 15:58 – Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Cor 16:11 – So let no one despise him. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.
1 Cor 16:12 – Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.
1 Cor 16:15 – Now I urge you, brothers–you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints–
1 Cor 16:20 – All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Cor 1:8 – For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
2 Cor 2:13 – my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
2 Cor 8:1 – We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,
2 Cor 8:18 – With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.
2 Cor 8:22 – And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.
2 Cor 8:23 – As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
2 Cor 9:3 – But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.
2 Cor 9:5 – So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.
2 Cor 11:9 – And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
2 Cor 12:18 – I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
2 Cor 13:11 – Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Gal 1:2 – and all the brothers who are with me,To the churches of Galatia:
Gal 1:11 – For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.
Gal 1:19 – But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.
Gal 3:15 – To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.
Gal 4:12 – Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.
Gal 4:28 – Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
Gal 4:31 – So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
Gal 5:11 – But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
Gal 5:13 – For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Gal 6:1 – Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Gal 6:18 – The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
Eph 6:21 – So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.
Eph 6:23 – Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Phil 1:12 – I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,
Phil 1:14 – And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Phil 2:25 – I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
Phil 3:1 – Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
Phil 3:13 – Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Phil 3:17 – Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
Phil 4:1 – Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
Phil 4:8 – Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Phil 4:21 – Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
Col 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Col 1:2 – To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 4:7 – Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
Col 4:9 – and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
Col 4:15 – Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
1 Thess 1:4 – For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
1 Thess 2:1 – For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.
1 Thess 2:9 – For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
1 Thess 2:17 – But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,
1 Thess 3:2 – and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,
1 Thess 3:7 – for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.
1 Thess 4:1 – Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
1 Thess 4:6 – that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
1 Thess 4:10 – for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more,
1 Thess 4:13 – But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
1 Thess 5:1 – Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.
1 Thess 5:4 – But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
1 Thess 5:12 – We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
1 Thess 5:14 – And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
1 Thess 5:25 – Brothers, pray for us.
1 Thess 5:26 – Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
1 Thess 5:27 – I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.
2 Thess 1:3 – We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
2 Thess 2:1 – Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
2 Thess 2:13 – But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
2 Thess 2:15 – So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
2 Thess 3:1 – Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,
2 Thess 3:6 – Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2 Thess 3:13 – As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
2 Thess 3:15 – Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
1 Tim 4:6 – If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
1 Tim 5:1 – Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father. Treat younger men like brothers,
1 Tim 5:2 – older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.
1 Tim 6:2 – Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.Teach and urge these things.
2 Tim 4:21 – Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.
Phm 1:1 – Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
Phm 1:2 – and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
Phm 1:7 – For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Phm 1:16 – no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother–especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Phm 1:20 – Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Heb 2:11 – For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Heb 2:12 – saying, "I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."
Heb 2:17 – Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Heb 3:1 – Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
Heb 3:12 – Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Heb 7:5 – And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.
Heb 8:11 – And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
Heb 10:19 – Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 13:22 – I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
Heb 13:23 – You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.
Jas 1:2 – Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Jas 1:9 – Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
Jas 1:16 – Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jas 1:19 – Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Jas 2:1 – My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Jas 2:14 – What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
Jas 2:15 – If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
Jas 3:1 – Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Jas 3:10 – From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Jas 3:12 – Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Jas 5:7 – Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Jas 5:10 – As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Jas 5:12 – But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Jas 5:19 – My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,
1 Pet 5:12 – By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.
2 Pet 1:10 – Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
2 Pet 3:15 – And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
1 Jn 2:9 – Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
1 Jn 2:10 – Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
1 Jn 2:11 – But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 Jn 3:10 – By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 Jn 3:12 – We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
1 Jn 3:13 – Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
1 Jn 3:14 – We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
1 Jn 3:15 – Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 Jn 3:16 – By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 Jn 3:17 – But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
1 Jn 4:20 – If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 Jn 4:21 – And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 Jn 5:16 – If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life–to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
3 Jn 1:3 – For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
3 Jn 1:5 – Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,
3 Jn 1:10 – So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Jude 1:1 – Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Rev 1:9 – I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Rev 6:11 – Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Rev 12:10 – And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Rev 19:10 – Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God." For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Rev 22:9 – but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
Believers, faithful
Mt 18:6 – but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mk 9:23 – And Jesus said to him, "If you can! All things are possible for one who believes."
Mk 9:42 – "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mk 16:17 – And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 3:16 – "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 6:35 – Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
Jn 6:47 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Jn 7:38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"
Jn 7:39 – Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jn 11:25 – Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
Jn 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Jn 14:12 – "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Jn 17:20 – "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Acts 2:44 – And all who believed were together and had all things in common.
Acts 4:32 – Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
Acts 5:14 – And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
Acts 10:43 – To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
Acts 10:45 – And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 11:21 – And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Acts 15:5 – But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses."
Acts 16:1 – Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.
Acts 16:15 – And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Acts 19:18 – Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
Acts 21:20 – And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,
Acts 22:19 – And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
Rom 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Rom 3:22 – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:24 – but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom 9:33 – as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Rom 10:11 – For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Cor 14:22 – Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
2 Cor 6:15 – What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
Gal 3:22 – But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:19 – and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
Col 1:2 – To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 4:9 – and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
1 Thess 1:7 – so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1 Thess 2:10 – You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.
1 Thess 2:13 – And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
2 Thess 1:10 – when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
1 Tim 4:10 – For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
1 Tim 4:12 – Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Tim 6:2 – Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.Teach and urge these things.
Tit 1:6 – if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
Tit 3:8 – The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
Heb 4:3 – For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'"although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
1 Pet 1:21 – who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
1 Pet 2:6 – For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
1 Pet 2:7 – So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,"
1 Pet 5:12 – By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.
1 Jn 5:1 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 Jn 5:5 – Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 Jn 5:10 – Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
1 Jn 5:13 – I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
Rev 17:14 – They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
Saints
Mt 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
Acts 9:13 – But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.
Acts 9:32 – Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
Acts 9:41 – And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
Acts 26:10 – And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
Rom 1:7 – To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 8:27 – And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 12:13 – Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Rom 15:25 – At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints.
Rom 15:26 – For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.
Rom 15:31 – that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
Rom 16:2 – that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.
Rom 16:15 – Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 6:1 – When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
1 Cor 16:1 – Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
1 Cor 16:15 – Now I urge you, brothers–you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints–
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Cor 8:4 – begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints–
2 Cor 9:1 – Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints,
2 Cor 9:12 – For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.
2 Cor 13:13 – All the saints greet you.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:15 – For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
Eph 1:18 – having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Eph 2:19 – So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Eph 3:8 – To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Eph 3:18 – may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 5:3 – But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Eph 6:18 – praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Phil 1:1 – Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
Phil 4:22 – All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household.
Col 1:2 – To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 1:4 – since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
Col 1:12 – giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Col 1:26 – the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Col 3:12 – Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
1 Thess 3:13 – so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
2 Thess 1:10 – when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
1 Tim 5:10 – and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.
Phm 1:5 – because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
Phm 1:7 – For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Heb 6:10 – For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.
Heb 13:24 – Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.
Jude 1:3 – Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:14 – It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Rev 5:8 – And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Rev 8:3 – And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,
Rev 8:4 – and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 13:7 – Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
Rev 13:10 – If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Rev 14:12 – Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Rev 16:6 – For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!"
Rev 17:6 – And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Rev 18:24 – And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth."
Rev 19:8 – it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure"–for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Rev 20:9 – And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
Beloved
Rom 1:7 – To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 12:19 – Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
2 Cor 7:1 – Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
2 Cor 12:19 – Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Eph 5:1 – Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Col 3:12 – Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
1 Tim 6:2 – Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.Teach and urge these things.
Phm 1:16 – no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother–especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Heb 6:9 – Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things–things that belong to salvation.
Jas 1:16 – Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jas 1:19 – Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
1 Pet 2:11 – Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
1 Pet 4:12 – Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
2 Pet 3:1 – This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,
2 Pet 3:8 – But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Pet 3:14 – Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
2 Pet 3:17 – You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
1 Jn 2:7 – Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
1 Jn 3:2 – Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 Jn 3:21 – Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Jn 4:7 – Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 Jn 4:11 – Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
3 Jn 1:2 – Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
3 Jn 1:5 – Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,
3 Jn 1:11 – Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
Jude 1:3 – Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:17 – But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:20 – But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
Disciples
Acts 6:1 – Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.
Acts 6:2 – And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
Acts 6:7 – And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Acts 9:1 – But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 9:10 – Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord."
Acts 9:19 – and taking food, he was strengthened.For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus.
Acts 9:26 – And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
Acts 9:38 – Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, "Please come to us without delay."
Acts 11:26 – and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 11:29 – So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
Acts 13:52 – And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 14:20 – But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
Acts 14:22 – strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 14:28 – And they remained no little time with the disciples.
Acts 15:10 – Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
Acts 16:1 – Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.
Acts 18:23 – After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Acts 19:1 – And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
Acts 19:9 – But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
Acts 19:30 – But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him.
Acts 20:30 – and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Acts 21:4 – And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:16 – And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Children
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 11:52 – and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Rom 8:16 – The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Rom 8:17 – and if children, then heirs–heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Rom 8:21 – that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Rom 9:8 – This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Gal 4:28 – Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
Gal 4:31 – So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
Eph 5:1 – Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Phil 2:15 – that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
1 Pet 1:14 – As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
1 Jn 3:1 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 Jn 3:2 – Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 Jn 3:10 – By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 Jn 5:2 – By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
2 Jn 1:1 – The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
2 Jn 1:4 – I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
2 Jn 1:13 – The children of your elect sister greet you.
3 Jn 1:4 – I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Elect
Mt 24:22 – And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Mt 24:24 – For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Mt 24:31 – And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mk 13:20 – And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
Mk 13:22 – False christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
Mk 13:27 – And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
Lk 18:7 – And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Col 3:12 – Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
2 Tim 2:10 – Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
1 Pet 1:1 – Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Pet 2:4 – As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Rev 17:14 – They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
Cf. 1 Cor 1:27, 28; Eph 1:4; 1 Thess 1:4; Jas 2:5
Sons, daughters
Rom 8:14 – For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Rom 8:19 – For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Rom 9:26 – "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
2 Cor 6:18 – and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."
Gal 3:26 – for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Gal 4:6 – And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Gal 4:7 – So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
1 Thess 5:5 – For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
Heb 2:10 – For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Heb 12:5 – And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
Heb 12:6 – For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."
Servants
Eph 6:6 – not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Rev 1:1 – The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Rev 6:11 – Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Rev 7:3 – saying, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Rev 22:3 – No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
Rev 22:6 – And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place."
Called
Rom 1:6 – including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,
Rom 1:7 – To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 8:28 – And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Heb 9:15 – Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Jude 1:1 – Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Rev 17:14 – They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
Cf. Acts 2:39; 15:17; Rom 8:30; 9:24; 1 Cor 1:9, 26; 7:15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24; Gal 1:6; 5:8, 13; Eph 1:18; 4:4; Col 3:15; 1 Thess 4:7; 5:24; 2 Thess 1:11; 2:14; 1 Tim 6:12; 2 Tim 1:9; Heb 3:1; Jas 2:7; 1 Pet 1:15; 2:9, 21; 3:9; 5:10; 2 Pet 1:10
Those who call on the Lord
Acts 2:21 – And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
Acts 9:14 – And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
Acts 9:21 – And all who heard him were amazed and said, "Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?"
Rom 10:12 – For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
Rom 10:13 – For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Cf. Acts 22:16
Heirs
Rom 8:17 – and if children, then heirs–heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Gal 4:7 – So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Cf. Eph 1:11, 14, 18; Col 1:12; Heb 1:14; 6:12; 1 Pet 1:4; 3:7, 9; Rev 21:7
Those who love God and the Lord Jesus
Jn 14:21 – Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
Rom 8:28 – And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
1 Cor 2:9 – But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"–
Eph 6:24 – Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Jas 1:12 – Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Offspring
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Rom 9:8 – This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Gal 3:29 – And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Heb 2:16 – For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.
Rev 12:17 – Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
Partakers
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Heb 3:1 – Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
Heb 3:14 – For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Heb 6:4 – For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Christians
Acts 11:26 – and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 26:28 – And Agrippa said to Paul, "In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?"
1 Pet 4:16 – Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
Israel, twelve tribes
Gal 6:16 – And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Jas 1:1 – James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Cf. Rom 9:6
Chosen race, royal priesthood, holy nation, God’s people
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Pet 2:10 – Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Sheep
John 10:2-5, 7-16
Those who fear God’s name
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Attributes of the church
The church is one
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:8 – And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Rom 12:4 – For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 1:13 – Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
1 Cor 10:17 – Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
Gal 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:14 – For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Eph 2:15 – by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Eph 2:16 – and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Eph 2:17 – And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
Eph 2:18 – For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Eph 2:19 – So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
Eph 4:7 – But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
Eph 4:8 – Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."
Eph 4:9 – (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Eph 4:10 – He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Eph 4:11 – And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Eph 4:14 – so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Col 3:11 – Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Cf. Jn 17:11, 21, 22, 23
The church consists of many members
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Cor 12:19 – If all were a single member, where would the body be?
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
The church is holy
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Eph 5:27 – so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Baptism as the means of being added to the church
Acts 2:41 – So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Basis of the unity of the church (see Eph 4:4-6)
One Spirit
1 Cor 12:4 – Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
1 Cor 12:9 – to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
2 Cor 11:4 – For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Jn 4:2 – By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
1 Jn 4:3 – and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
1 Jn 4:6 – We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
One Lord
1 Cor 12:5 – and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
2 Cor 11:4 – For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Eph 4:5 – one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One faith
2 Cor 11:4 – For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Gal 1:6 – I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel–
Gal 1:7 – not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 – But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 – As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
Eph 4:5 – one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Eph 4:14 – so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Eph 4:15 – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
2 Jn 1:9 – Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 Jn 1:10 – If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,
Jude 1:3 – Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
One baptism
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Eph 4:5 – one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all
1 Cor 12:6 – and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
Eph 4:6 – one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Exhortations to members of the church
Keep the unity of the body
Use our various gifts for the common good
Rom 12:6-8
1 Cor 12:4-31
Eph 4:16 – from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
1 Pet 4:10-11
Pursue peace and mutual edification
Do not pass judgment on each other (Rom 14:1-13)
Rom 14:19 – So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Eph 4:3 – eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Eph 4:29 – Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Bear with and welcome one another
Rom 15:1-7
Eph 4:1-2, 31, 32
Phil 2:14 – Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
1 Pet 4:9 – Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
Care for one another
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
1 Cor 12:26 – If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Phil 2:4 – Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Let there be no division
1 Cor 1:10 – I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
Phil 2:3 – Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Speak the truth in love
Eph 4:15 – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Eph 4:16 – from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Eph 4:25 – Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Think with sober judgment
Rom 12:3 – For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Seek unity in humility
Php 2:1-11
Stir up and exhort one another
Heb 10:24 – And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Heb 10:25 – not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrew terms translated as <i>ekklēsia</i>, ἐκκλησία ("Church") in the Septuagint
קָהָל
Deut 9:10 – And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
Deut 18:16 – just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'
Deut 23:1 – "No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deut 23:2 – "No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deut 23:3 – "No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,
Deut 23:8 – Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deut 31:30 – Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:
Josh 8:35 – There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.
Judg 20:2 – And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.
Judg 21:5 – And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
Judg 21:8 – And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
1 Sam 17:47 – and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hand."
1 Kgs 8:14 – Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
1 Kgs 8:22 – Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,
1 Kgs 8:55 – And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1 Kgs 8:65 – So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.
1 Chr 13:2 – And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and from the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.
1 Chr 13:4 – All the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
1 Chr 28:8 – Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
1 Chr 29:1 – And David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God.
1 Chr 29:10 – Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: "Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
1 Chr 29:20 – Then David said to all the assembly, "Bless the LORD your God." And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.
2 Chr 1:3 – And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there.
2 Chr 1:5 – Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD. And Solomon and the assembly resorted to it.
2 Chr 6:3 – Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
2 Chr 6:12 – Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
2 Chr 6:13 – Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,
2 Chr 7:8 – At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
2 Chr 20:5 – And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
2 Chr 20:14 – And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.
2 Chr 23:3 – And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, "Behold, the king's son! Let him reign, as the LORD spoke concerning the sons of David.
2 Chr 28:14 – So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
2 Chr 29:23 – Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,
2 Chr 29:28 – The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
2 Chr 29:31 – Then Hezekiah said, "You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD." And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
2 Chr 29:32 – The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
2 Chr 30:2 – For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month–
2 Chr 30:4 – and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.
2 Chr 30:13 – And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
2 Chr 30:17 – For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD.
2 Chr 30:23 – Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.
2 Chr 30:24 – For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.
2 Chr 30:25 – The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
Ezra 2:64 – The whole assembly together was 42,360,
Ezra 10:1 – While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
Ezra 10:8 – and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Ezra 10:12 – Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said.
Job 30:28 – I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Ps 22:22 – I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
Ps 22:25 – From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
Ps 26:5 – I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Ps 35:18 – I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.
Ps 40:9 – I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.
Ps 89:5 – Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
Ps 107:32 – Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Ps 149:1 – Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!
Prov 5:14 – I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."
Lam 1:10 – The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Mic 2:5 – Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
Joel 2:16 – gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
מַקְהֵל
Ps 26:12 – My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.
Ps 68:26 – "Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel's fountain!"
לַהֲקָה
1 Sam 19:20 – Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
קְהִלָּה
Neh 5:7 – I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them
<i>ekklēsiazō</i>, ἐκκλησιάζω (“assemble”), the verb form of <i>ekklēsia</i>, ἐκκλησία ("Church") in the Septuagint
Lev 8:3 – And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting."
Num 20:8 – "Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
Deut 4:10 – how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'
Deut 31:12 – Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,
Deut 31:28 – Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Josh 18:1 – Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
1 Kgs 8:1 – Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chr 5:2 – Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chr 5:3 – And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.
2 Chr 11:1 – When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
2 Chr 15:9 – And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
2 Chr 24:6 – So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?"
Est 4:16 – "Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."
Related Greek words used in the context of the church
συνάγω (“gather”)
Jn 11:52 – and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Acts 4:31 – And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 11:26 – and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:6 – The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
Acts 15:30 – So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
Acts 20:7 – On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Acts 20:8 – There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
1 Cor 5:4 – When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
ἐπισυνάγω (“gather")
Mt 24:31 – And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mk 13:27 – And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
ἐπισυναγωγή (“gathering”)
2 Thess 2:1 – Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
Heb 10:25 – not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Words related grammatically to “church” (ἐκκλησία)
Verbs with "Church" (ἐκκλησία) as Subject
To greet, ἀσπάζομαι
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
1 Cor 16:19 – The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
To have/be, ἔχω
Acts 9:31 – So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
To strengthen, στερεόω
Acts 16:5 – So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
To confound, συγχέω
Acts 19:32 – Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.
To thank, εὐχαριστέω
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
To take, λαμβάνω
1 Cor 14:5 – Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
To assemble, συνέρχομαι
1 Cor 14:23 – If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
To subject, ὑποτάσσω
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
To participate, κοινωνέω
Phil 4:15 – And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.
To burden, βαρέω
1 Tim 5:16 – If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are really widows.
To know, γινώσκω
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Verbs with "Church" (ἐκκλησία) as Object
To greet, ἀσπάζομαι
Acts 18:22 – When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:5 – Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
Col 4:15 – Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
To persecute, διώκω
1 Cor 15:9 – For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Gal 1:13 – For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
Phil 3:6 – as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law blameless.
To build, οἰκοδομέω
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
1 Cor 14:4 – The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
To ignore, παρακούω
Mt 18:17 – If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
To ravage, λυμαίνομαι
Acts 8:3 – But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
To assemble, συνάγω
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
To strengthen, ἐπιστηρίζω
Acts 15:41 – And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
To release, ἀπολύω
Acts 19:41 – And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
To shepherd, ποιμαίνω
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
To despise, καταφρονέω
1 Cor 11:22 – What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
To rob, συλάω
2 Cor 11:8 – I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
To love, ἀγαπάω
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
To stand by, παρίστημι
Eph 5:27 – so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
To care, ἐπιμελέομαι
1 Tim 3:5 – for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
Verbs with "Church" (ἐκκλησία) as Indirect Object
To speak, λέγω
Rev 2:7 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.'
Rev 2:11 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.'
Rev 2:17 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
Rev 2:29 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:6 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:13 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:22 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
To say, ἔπω, ἐρῶ, εἶπον
Mt 18:17 – If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
To direct, διατάσσω
1 Cor 16:1 – Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
To give, δίδωμι
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
To write, γράφω
3 Jn 1:9 – I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.
To send, πέμπω
Rev 1:11 – saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."
Adjectives Modifying "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
All, πᾶς
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
1 Cor 4:17 – That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1 Cor 7:17 – Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
2 Cor 8:18 – With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.
2 Cor 11:28 – And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Whole, ὅλος
Acts 5:11 – And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.
Acts 15:22 – Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,
Rom 16:23 – Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
1 Cor 14:23 – If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
To be, εἰμί
Acts 13:1 – Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Under law, ἔννομος
Acts 19:39 – But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
Another, ἄλλος
2 Cor 11:8 – I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
Remaining, λοιπός
2 Cor 12:13 – For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
No one, οὐδείς
Phil 4:15 – And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.
Appositions with "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
The/this/who, ὁ
Acts 8:1 – And Saul approved of his execution.And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Rom 16:1 – I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Gal 1:22 – And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
Rev 1:4 – John to the seven churches that are in Asia:Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
Corinth, Κόρινθος
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Jerusalem, Ἱερουσαλήμ
Acts 11:22 – The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
To sanctify, ἁγιάζω
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Holy, ἅγιος
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Judea, Ἰουδαία
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
Foundation, ἑδραίωμα
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Pillar, στῦλος
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Prepositions with "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
In/on/among, ἐν
Acts 7:38 – This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
Acts 11:26 – and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 19:39 – But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
1 Cor 4:17 – That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1 Cor 6:4 – So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?
1 Cor 7:17 – Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1 Cor 11:18 – For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
1 Cor 12:28 – And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Cor 14:19 – Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
1 Cor 14:28 – But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
1 Cor 14:34 – the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.
1 Cor 14:35 – If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
2 Cor 8:1 – We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,
Eph 3:21 – to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Col 4:16 – And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
2 Thess 1:4 – Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Acts 5:11 – And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.
Acts 8:1 – And Saul approved of his execution.And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Rev 22:16 – "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."
By/under, ὑπό
Acts 12:5 – So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
2 Cor 8:19 – And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will.
From, ἀπό
Acts 12:1 – About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.
Acts 15:4 – When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
According to, κατά
Acts 13:1 – Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 14:23 – And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
With, σύν
Acts 15:22 – Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,
1 Cor 16:19 – The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
Through/because of, διά
2 Cor 8:18 – With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.
Eph 3:10 – so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Above/for, ὑπέρ
2 Cor 12:13 – For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
Toward, εἰς
Eph 5:32 – This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Before, ἐνώπιον
3 Jn 1:6 – who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.
Of/from, ἐκ
3 Jn 1:10 – So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
… of "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
Angel, ἄγγελος
Rev 1:20 – As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Rev 2:1 – "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Rev 2:8 – "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.
Rev 2:12 – "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
Rev 2:18 – "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
Rev 3:1 – "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars."'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Rev 3:7 – "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
Rev 3:14 – "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.
Elder, πρεσβύτερος
Acts 20:17 – Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.
Jas 5:14 – Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Ear, οὖς
Acts 11:22 – The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
Servant, διάκονος
Rom 16:1 – I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Foreign, ξένος
Rom 16:23 – Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
Building, οἰκοδομή
1 Cor 14:12 – So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
Apostle, ἀπόστολος
2 Cor 8:23 – As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
Face, πρόσωπον
2 Cor 8:24 – So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
Concern, μέριμνα
2 Cor 11:28 – And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Head, κεφαλή
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Imitator, μιμητής
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
Midst, μέσος
Heb 2:12 – saying, "I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."
"Church" (ἐκκλησία) of …
God, θεός
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 10:32 – Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1 Cor 11:16 – If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
1 Cor 11:22 – What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
1 Cor 15:9 – For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Gal 1:13 – For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
2 Thess 1:4 – Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
1 Tim 3:5 – for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Galatia, Γαλατία
1 Cor 16:1 – Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
Gal 1:2 – and all the brothers who are with me,To the churches of Galatia:
Thessalonian, Θεσσαλονικεύς
1 Thess 1:1 – Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:Grace to you and peace.
2 Thess 1:1 – Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
I/we, ἐγώ
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Gentiles, ἔθνος
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
Christ, Χριστός
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Holy, ἅγιος
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
Asia, Ἀσία
1 Cor 16:19 – The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
Macedonia, Μακεδονία
2 Cor 8:1 – We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,
Judea, Ἰουδαία
Gal 1:22 – And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
Laodicean, Λαοδικεύς
Col 4:16 – And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
Firstborn, πρωτότοκος
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Verbal Copula of "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
To be, εἰμί
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Rev 1:20 – As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
… and "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
Aquila, Ἀκύλας
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:5 – Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
Prisca, Πρίσκα
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:5 – Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
I/we, ἐγώ
Rom 16:23 – Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
God changes Abram’s name to Abraham “for I have made you a father of many nations.” (Gen 17:5)
Family
Born of
Father: Terah, son of Nahor (Gen 11:10-27)
Siblings
Nahor (Gen 11:26-27)
Haran (Gen 11:26-27)
Spouse
Sarai/Sarah, daughter of Terah (Gen 11:29; 17:15; 20:12)
Hagar, Sarai’s maidservant whom she gave to Abram after they lived in Canaan for ten years (Gen 16:3)
Keturah (Gen 25:1)
Children
Ishmael, son of maidservant Hagar, named by an Angel of the Lord before Ishmael’s birth (Gen 16:11)
Isaac, son of Sarah. He was a promised son to Abraham and Sarah in their old age and was named by God one year prior to Isaac’s birth (Gen 17:19; 25:19)
Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuah, sons of Keturah (Gen 25:2)
Acquired possessions and people in Haran (Gen 12:5)
Acquired from Pharaoh, livestock (sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys), and servants (male and female) (Gen 12:16)
Owner of livestock, silver (Gen 13:2)
Acquired from Abimelech, livestock (sheep, oxen), servants (male, female), a thousand pieces of silver, and land to live on (Gen 20:14-16)
Acquired the field of Ephron in Machpelah, east of Mamre (Hebron, in Canaan) from Ephron in Hittite by refusing the gift land and instead paying four hundred shekels of silver (Gen 23:3-20)
Owner of servants
Acquired from Pharaoh, livestock (sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys), and servants (male and female) (Gen 12:16)
Owner of trained servants. He led three-hundred eighteen of his trained servants born in his house to rescued Lot and his household (Gen 14:14)
Acquired from Abimelech, livestock (sheep, oxen), servants (male, female), a thousand pieces of silver, and land to live on (Gen 20:14-16)
Events
The life of Abraham (Gen 11:26-25:10)
Life in Terah’s household (Gen 11:31-32; Jos 24:2-3)
God chooses Abram (Neh 9:7)
God appears to Abram and tells him to go out to a land where God will show him (Acts 7:2-3; Jos 24:2-3)
Abram’s father Terah moves his family from Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan. He arrives at Haran and lives there (Gen 11:31; Neh 9:7; Acts 7:2-4)
Life with God and Sarai (Gen 12:1-15:20)
God commands Abram to leave his family to go to another land. He promises him that he will become a great nation, obtain blessings, and receive protection (Gen 12:1-3; Ex 6:3-4, 8; Acts 7:2-8)
Abram obeys and leaves to go to Canaan with his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his people and possessions. (Gen 12:4-5; Acts 7:4; Heb 11:8)
Abram is seventy-five years old when he departs from Haran (Gen 12:4)
Abram goes to Canaan (Gen 12:5b)
Abram passes through Canaan to Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh (Gen 12:6)
The Lord appears to Abraham and promises the land to Abram’s descendants (Gen 12:7; Acts 7:5)
Abram builds an altar to the Lord (Gen 12:7)
Abram goes to the mountain east of Bethel (Gen 12:8)
Abram pitches his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east (Gen 12:8; Heb 11:9)
Abram builds an altar to the Lord and calls on the name of the Lord (Gen 12:8)
Abram travels toward the South (Gen 12:9)
Abram goes to Egypt to dwell there because there was a severe famine in the land (Gen 12:10-20)
Abram tells his wife to say that she is his sister (Gen 12:11-13)
Abram and Sarai are treated well and Sarai is taken to Pharaoh's house (Gen 12:14-16)
The Lord plagues Pharaoh and his house because of Sarai (Gen 12:17)
Pharaoh realizes Abram’s lie and sends Abram and Sarai away (Gen 12:18-20)
Abram travels up from Egypt with Sarai and Lot to the South (Gen 13:1)
Abram travels from the South back to the place where he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar. Then he moves his tent to the terebinth trees of Mamre in Hebron (Gen 13:3, 18)
Abram calls on the name of the Lord (Gen 13:4)
Abraham and Lot part ways (Gen 13:5-13)
God tells Abram that all the land he can see will be given to him and his descendants forever (Gen 13:14-16; Ex 33:1)
God tells Abram to arise and walk through the land’s length and width (Gen 13:17)
Abram obeys by moving his tent to live by the terebinth trees of Mamre in Hebron (Gen 13:18; Heb 11:9)
Abram builds an altar to the Lord in Hebron (Gen 13:18)
Abram rescues Lot, his goods, the women, and the people from the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, who fled into the mountains (Gen 14:8-17)
When the ones who escaped tell Abram of Lot’s capture, Abram leads 318 trained men who were born in his house to pursue the captors as far as Dan (Gen 14:13-14)
Abram divides his forces against the captors by night, defeats them, and pursues them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus (Gen 14:15)
Abram brings Lot back with his possessions, the women, and the people (Gen 14:16)
Abram defeats Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him (Gen 14:17)
Abram meets the king of Sodom at the Valley of Shaveh, also known as The King’s Valley (Gen 14:17)
Melchizedek king of Salem, priest of God Most High, brings bread and wine and blesses Abram (Gen 14:18-19)
Abram gives Melchizedek a tithe, a tenth of everything (Gen 14:20)
Abram refuses to take any of the goods offered by the king of Sodom, stating his reason. He only accepts what the young men had eaten and Aner, Eschol, and Mamre’s portion of the spoil (Gen 14:21-24)
God’s covenant with Abram (Gen 15:1-21)
God promises numberless descendants to Abram (Gen 15:1-6)
The Lord’s words come to Abram in a vision, saying, “Fear not, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” (Gen 15:1)
Abram questions God, stating his childless state and that his heir is Eliezer of Damascus, who is not part of his household (Gen 15:2-3)
God promises that Abram will have his own offspring, as many as the stars (Gen 15:4-5; Acts 7:17; Rom 4:16-22; Gal 3:15-29; Heb 11:18)
Abram believes the Lord and the Lord counts Abram’s faith as righteous (Gen 15:6; Rom 4:3; Rom 4:9, 11, 13, 18-22; Heb 6:14; 7:2; Gal 3:6-8; Jas 2:23)
God promises land to Abram as an inheritance (Gen 15:7-21; Ex 6:3-4; 8; 33:1; Num 32:11; 1 Chr 16:18; Acts 7:4-5)
Abram asks how he will know that he will inherit the land (Gen 15:8; Heb 11:10)
God tells Abram to bring Him five animals. Abram obeys, cutting each in two, except the birds. Then Abram drives away vultures (Gen 15:9-11)
Abram falls into a deep sleep as the sun sets. Horror and great darkness fall upon him (Gen 15:12)
God tells Abram about his descendants (Gen 15:13-16; Lev 26:42; 1 Chr 16:19-20; Acts 7:6-7; Ezek 33:24)
His descendants will be strangers in a land
His descendants will serve those who own the land in affliction for four hundred years.
God will judge the nation that afflicts Abram’s descendants
Abram’s descendants will come out with great possessions
Abram’s descendants will return in the fourth generation because the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete
God tells Abram that he will go to his fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age (Gen 15:15)
The sun goes down and it becomes dark. A smoking oven and a burning torch pass between the pieces (Gen 15:17)
On the same day, the Lord makes a covenant with Abram, giving his descendants land (Gen 15:18-21; Ex 6:3-4,8)
Abraham’s family grows (Gen 16:1-21:21; Gal 4:22-31)
Abram’s son Ishmael is born (Gen 16:1-16)
Sarai gives her maidservant Hagar to Abram to be his wife and bear children (Gen 16:1-4)
Hagar despises Sarai, Sarai deals harshly with Hagar, and Hagar flees (Gen 16:4-6)
An Angel of the Lord finds Hagar by a spring of water in the wilderness on the way to Shur, blesses her, and commands her to return and submit to Sarai (Gen 16:7-14)
Hagar bears Abram a son when Abram is eighty-six years old. Abram names his son Ishmael (Gen 16:15-16)
Circumcision, the sign of the covenant (Gen 17:1-27; Acts 7:8; Rom 4:9-13)
The Lord appears to Abram when he is ninety-nine years old (Gen 17:1)
The Lord tells Abram
To walk before Him and be blameless (Gen 17:1)
That He will make a covenant with him and multiply him exceedingly (Gen 17:2, 4, 6-8)
The Lord changes Abram’s name to Abraham (Gen 17:5)
All male descendants and those bought with money in Abraham’s house shall be circumcised (Gen 17:9-14; 1 Chr 1:27; Neh 9:7)
The Lord changes Sarai’s name to Sarah, promises to bless her and give her a son at this time next year, and that she will be a mother of nations (Gen 17:16-22; Gal 3:8)
Abraham falls on his face, laughs, and says in his heart whether a one-hundred year old and ninety-year old can bear a child. He mentions Ishmael to God (Gen 17:17-18; Rom 4:18-22; Gal 4:22-31)
God confirms that Sarah will bear a son called Isaac, and that God will establish an everlasting covenant with him and his descendants. God also blesses Ishmael and promises to multiply him into a great nation, which includes twelve princes (Gen 17:20; Gal 4:22-31)
Abraham obeys and all males are circumcised (Gen 17:23-27)
God promises a son to Sarah and Abraham (Gen 18:1-15; Rom 9:9; Gal 4:23, 28-30)
The Lord appears to Abraham. He sees three men standing across from him (Gen 18:1-2; Heb 11:9)
Abraham bows to them and asks to serve them by having their feet washed, providing rest under the tree, and preparing food for them to eat (Gen 18:3-5)
Abraham hurriedly asks Sarah to prepare cakes and a young servant to prepare a calf (Gen 18:6-7)
Abraham serves food to the three men and stands by them while they eat (Gen 18:8)
The three men ask about Sarah’s whereabouts.One of the men promises to return around this time next year. At that time, Sarah will have a son (Gen 18:9-10, 17; Rom 9:9; Gal 4:23, 28-30)
Sarah, listening at the door of the tent, laughs to herself, and says within herself, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?” (Gen 18:10-12; 1 Pet 3:6)
The Lord says to Abraham what Sarah said within herself and restates that Sarah will have a son (Gen 18:13-14; Rom 9:9; Gal 4:23; 28)
Sarah denies laughing, but the Lord refutes her statement (Gen 18:15)
Abraham’s corrupt kinsmen (Gen 18:16-19:38)
Abraham intercedes for Sodom (Gen 18:16-33)
The men set out from the oaks of Mamre and look down toward Sodom. Abraham goes with them to send them off (Gen 18:16)
The Lord does not hide from Abraham what He is about to do to Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 18:17-21)
The two angels leave and go toward Sodom to see if Sodom is as wicked at the outcry suggests (Gen 18:22)
Abraham still stands before the Lord, approaches, and asks whether God would sweep away the godly along with the wicked. The Lord responds that He would not destroy it for the sake of ten righteous people (Gen 18:23-33)
The two angels visit Sodom and Lot tries to protect them. The angels pull Lot safely into the house and strike the men at the door with blindness (Gen 19:1-11)
The two angels urge Lot and his family to safety, but they respond with hesitance. Contrary to instructions, Lot’s wife turns back to look at Sodom and turns into a pillar of salt. Lot and his daughters arrive at Zoar just after sunrise; then the Lord destroys Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:12-29)
Lot moves into a cave with his daughters and they conceive Moab and Ben-ammi, the fathers of the Moabites and Ammonites (Gen 19:30-38)
Abraham tells Abimelech that Sarah is his sister (Gen 20:1-18)
Abraham travels and sojourns in Gerar, telling others that Sarah is his sister (Gen 20:1-2)
Abimelech king of Gerar takes Sarah but does not go near her (Gen 20:2, 4)
The Lord closes all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife (Gen 20:18)
God appears to Abimelech in a dream to tell him that Sarah is another man’s wife and that He had kept Abimelech from unknowingly sinning against Him. God commands Abimelech to return Sarah to Abraham (Gen 20:2-7)
Abimelech rebukes and confronts Abraham (Gen 20:8-13)
Abimelech gives Abraham livestock, servants, and silver, and tells him to live on any part of Abimelech’s land (Gen 20:14-16)
Abraham prays to God; God heals Abimelech and the females of his household so that they bear children (Gen 20:17-18)
Abraham’s promised son Isaac is born (Gen 21:1-8; Josh 24:3; Matt 1:2; Heb 11:11-12)
The Lord visits Sarah and does for Sarah what He had spoken (Gen 21:1; Heb 11:11-12)
Sarah bears Abraham a son when Abraham is one hundred years old (Gen 21:2, 5)
Abraham names the son that Sarah bore to him, Isaac (Gen 21:3)
Abraham circumcises Isaac at eight days old (Genesis 21:4; Acts 7:8)
Sarah says many things about giving birth to Isaac in her and Abraham’s old age, mentioning laughter (Gen 21:6-7; Heb 11:11-12)
Abraham makes a feast on the day that Isaac is weaned (Gen 21:8)
Hager and Ishmael depart (Gen 21:8-21)
On the day that Isaac is weaned, Sarah sees Ishmael scoffing and tells Abraham to cast out Hagar and Ishmael. Abraham is displeased. (Gen 21:9-11)
God tells Abraham not to be displeased because of Ishamel or Hagar, and to listen to what Sarah says. God also says that He will make a nation of Ishmael. (Gen 21:12-13; Gal 4:22-31)
Abraham obeys God and rises early to send Hagar and Ishmael away (Gen 21:14)
Hagar and Ishmael depart and wander in the Wilderness of Beersheba until their skin of water runs out (Gen 21:14-15)
Hagar puts Ishmael under a shrub, goes about a bowshot’s distance away, sits, and weeps. God hears Ishmael’s voice. An angel of God tells Hagar not to fear but to arise, because God will make him into a great nation (Gen 21:16-18)
God opens Hagar’s eyes to see a well of water, from which she fills the skin and gives a drink to Ishmael (Gen 21:19)
Ishmael grows up in the Wilderness of Paran and becomes an archer. God is with him, and his mother gets a wife for him from Egypt (Gen 21:20)
Abraham’s wisdom and faith (Gen 21:22-25:10)
The issue of the well with Abimelech’s servants (Gen 21:22-34)
Abimelech and Phichol ask Abraham to not deal falsely with him, his descendants, or his posterity, and Abraham agrees (Gen 21:22-24)
Abraham rebukes Abimelech because Abimelech’s servant had seized a well of water, but Abimelech was unaware of the situation. Therefore, Abraham takes livestock and makes a covenant with Abimelech. He also gives Abimelech seven ewe lambs as witness for the well. He names this place, Beersheba. (Gen 21:25-34)
After Abimelech and Phichol depart, Abraham plants a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and calls on the name of the Lord. He then dwells in the land of the Philistines many days (Gen 21:33-34)
God tests Abraham by commanding him to offer Isaac as a burnt offering (Gen 22:1-19; Heb 11:17-19; Jas 2:21)
God calls Abraham and Abraham responds immediately (Gen 22:1)
God commands Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain in Moriah (Gen 22:2)
Abraham obeys by rising early, preparing his donkey, and cutting wood for the burnt offering. He takes Isaac and two young men with him (Gen 22:2-3)
Abraham travels to the place which God told him to go and sees it in the distance on the third day of the journey. He instructs the young men to stay with the donkey (Gen 22:3-5)
Abraham puts the wood of the burnt offering on Isaac and takes the fire and the knife in his own hands. They set off together. (Gen 22:6-7)
Isaac calls to his father and Abraham answers. Isaac asks of the whereabouts of the lamb for the burnt offering and Abraham responds that God will provide the lamb. (Gen 22:7-8)
They continue to walk and arrive at the place God had told him. Abraham prepares the altar, binds his son, lays him on the altar, reaches out his hand, and takes the knife to slaughter his son (Gen 22:9-10; Heb 11:17-19; Jas 2:21)
Before he slaughters his son, the Angel of the Lord calls out to Abraham, and he responds. The Angel says not to harm Isaac because He now knows that Abraham fears God. (Gen 22:11-12)
Abraham looks up, sees a ram, and offers it, naming the location “The Lord Will Provide.” (Gen 22:13-14)
The Angel of the Lord calls to Abraham again and blesses him and his offspring (Gen 22:15-18)
Abraham, Isaac, and the two young men return to Beersheba, where Abraham lives (Gen 22:19, 12)
An account of the lineage of Rebekah (Gen 22:20-24)
Abraham buys a field, which has a cave, to bury Sarah (Gen 23:1-20; Acts 7:16)
Sarah dies at age 127 at Kirath-arba (Hebron, in Canaan), and Abraham mourns and weeps (Gen 23:1-2)
Abraham bows and asks the Hittites for a property to bury Sarah out of his sight. The Hittites agree and offer the choicest of their tombs. Abraham asks for the cave of Machpelah, owned by Ephron the son of Zohar. Ephron happens to be present and announces that he would give it to Abraham for free. In their verbal exchange, Ephron mentions the price and Abraham weighs out four hundred shekels of silver to pay him (Gen 23:3-16)
Abraham now owns the field of Ephron and buries Sarah in the cave (Gen 23:17-20)
Abraham sends his servant to find a wife for Isaac (Gen 24:1-67)
When Abraham is well advanced in years, he tells his most-trusted servant to find a wife for Isaac from Abraham’s country. (Gen 24:1-9)
He makes his servant swear by placing the servant’s hand under Abraham’s thigh that he will not find a woman from among the Canaanites (Gen 24:2-3, 9)
The servant is not to take Isaac back to Abraham’s homeland because God promised this land to Abraham’s offspring (Gen 24:5-8)
If the wife does not want to follow the servant back, the servant is free from the oath of Abraham (Gen 24:8)
The servant goes to the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia with ten camels and choice gifts from Abraham. He makes the camels kneel down next to the well outside the city wall at the evening time when women go draw water (Gen 24:10-11)
The servant prays to God (Gen 24:12-14)
Before he finishes speaking, Rebekah appears and the servant runs to ask for water. Rebekah complies and also draws water for the camels, which exactly matches his prayer (Gen 24:15-21)
The servant places gold jewelry on Rebekah’s arms and asks who her father is, and whether the servant and the camels can spend the night. Rebekah answers in the affirmative (Gen 24:22-25)
The servant bows his head and worships the Lord (Gen 24:26-27)
Rebekah runs to tell her mother’s household. Upon hearing Rebekah’s account, her brother Laban runs out to the spring and invites the servant to stay for the night. The servant and the people he is with are provided water to wash their feet and food. The camels are housed and fed (Gen 24:28-33)
The servant gives an account of Abraham’s blessings from the Lord, the task that Abraham has given to him, and what happened at the well. He asks that Rebekah be married to Isaac (Gen 24:34-49)
Laban and Bethuel agree to send Rebekah with the servant along with jewelry, garments, and costly ornaments. The servant stays the night but refuses to stay an extra ten days because the Lord prospered his way. Rebekah is blessed and leaves (Gen 24:50-61)
Rebekah and the servant meets Isaac on on the way back; the servant tells Issac what has happened. Rebekah becomes Isaac’s wife and Isaac is comforted (Gen 24:62-67)
Abraham’s later life, wife, and children (Gen 25:1-10)
Abraham takes his third wife, Keturah (Gen 25:1)
Abraham’s other children from Keturah (Gen 25:2-4)
Abraham leaves everything to Isaac but gives gifts to his other sons and sends them to the east country (Gen 25:5-6)
Abraham dies at age 175 and is buried with Sarah at the cave of Machpelah (Gen 25:7-10; Jn 8:52-53)
Comments about Abraham
Altars built to the Lord (Gen 12:8; 13:18; 22:9-14)
Sacrificed/went to the altar (Gen 13:4; 15:9-21)
Planted a tamarisk tree and called on the name of the Lord (Gen 21:33)
Blessed are those who have faith (Rom 4:9; Gal 3:8-9, 14)
Called by God (Isa 51:2)
Chosen by God (Neh 9:7)
Encouraged by God, “Do not be afraid” (Gen 15:1)
Faith of Abraham
Belief was accounted to him for righteousness (Gen 15:6; Rom 4:3, 9, 11, 13; Heb 7:2; Gal 3:6; Jas 2:23)
Believed while still uncircumcised (Acts 7:8; Rom 4:1-22)
Did not waver; strengthened in faith, fully convinced, gave glory to God (Rom 4:20-21; Heb 11:15-16)
Died in faith (Heb 11:13-16; 6:14-15)
Faith of Abraham (Rom 4:16, 20-21; Heb 11:8-19)
God found his heart faithful before Him (Neh 9:8)
Hoped, when it was contrary to hope (Rom 4:18)
Justification by faith (Rom 4:16, Gal 3:7-9, 14)
Justification by faith and works (Jas 2:21-23; Heb 11:17-19)
Lived as a foreigner in tents (Heb 11:9)
Looked forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God (Heb 11:10, 16)
Obeyed and went out by faith (Heb 11:8)
Offered his only son by faith (Heb 11:17-19; Jas 2:21)
Fears God (Gen 22:12)
Friend of God (Jas 2:23; Isa 41:8)
Kingdom of heaven (Mt 8:11; 22:32; Mk 12:26; Lk 13:28; 16:22-31; 20:37-38; Jn 8:56; Heb 11:10, 16)
Loved by God (Isa 41:8; Mic 7:20)
Name changed by God (Gen 17:5; 1 Chr 1:27; Neh 9:7)
Obeyed God (Gen 12:4; 17:23-27; 22:18; 26:5; 27:8; Heb 11:8-9)
Persevered (Heb 6:14-15; 11:9-10)
Promised blessing of God to Abraham’s seed through faith (Gal 3:7-9, 16, 18; Rom 4:9, 12-13, 16)
Redeemed by God (Isa 29:22)
Remembered by God (Ps 105:42)
Righteous (Gen 15:6; Rom 4:2-3, 9, 13, 22; Heb 7:2; Gal 3:6; Jas 2:23)
Servant of God (Ex 32:13; Deut 9:27; Ps 105:42)
Tithed (Gen 14:20; Heb 7:2, 4-6, 9)
Forefather of the chosen people (Gen 26:24; 28:4; Jer 33:26; Mt 1:1-18; Lk 19:9; Acts 7:8; 13:26; Rm 4:16-18; Gal 3:7-9; Heb 11:12)
All the families of the earth are blessed through Abraham (Gen 18:18; Gen 26:4-5; Jer 33:26; Acts 3:25; Rom 4:9, 11; Gal 3:8-9, 14)
Words Related Grammatically to Abraham
Abraham as explicit or implied subject
say, אמר
Gen 12:11 – When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
Gen 12:19 – Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."
Gen 13:8 – Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
Gen 14:22 – But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
Gen 15:2 – But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Gen 15:3 – And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir."
Gen 15:8 – But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"
Gen 16:6 – But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
Gen 17:18 – And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
Gen 18:3 – and said, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
Gen 18:6 – And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes."
Gen 18:9 – They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is in the tent."
Gen 18:23 – Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Gen 18:30 – Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
Gen 18:31 – He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."
Gen 18:32 – Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."
Gen 20:2 – And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Gen 20:5 – Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
Gen 20:11 – Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Gen 20:13 – And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
Gen 21:24 – And Abraham said, "I will swear."
Gen 21:30 – He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
Gen 22:1 – After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
Gen 22:5 – Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
Gen 22:7 – And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Gen 22:8 – Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:11 – But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
Gen 24:2 – And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,
Gen 24:6 – Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.
Gen 24:40 – But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
take, לקח
Gen 11:29 – And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 12:19 – Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."
Gen 14:23 – that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
Gen 15:9 – He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Gen 15:10 – And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.
Gen 17:23 – Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
Gen 18:7 – And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly.
Gen 18:8 – Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
Gen 21:14 – So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen 21:27 – So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Gen 22:6 – And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:10 – Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Gen 22:13 – And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Gen 25:1 – Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
walk, הלך
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen 12:4 – So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen 12:19 – Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."
Gen 13:3 – And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Gen 13:17 – Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
Gen 15:2 – But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Gen 17:1 – When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Gen 22:5 – Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
Gen 22:6 – And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:8 – Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:13 – And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Gen 22:19 – So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Gen 24:40 – But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
come, בוא
Gen 11:31 – Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 12:14 – When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Gen 13:18 – So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
Gen 15:15 – As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Gen 16:2 – And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Gen 16:4 – And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
Gen 18:11 – Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
Gen 20:9 – Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
Gen 20:13 – And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
Gen 22:9 – When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Gen 23:2 – And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Gen 24:1 – Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
sit, ישׁב
Gen 11:31 – Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen 13:6 – so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
Gen 13:12 – Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Gen 13:18 – So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
Gen 18:1 – And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Gen 20:1 – From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Gen 20:15 – And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."
Gen 22:19 – So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Gen 24:3 – that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
Josh 24:2 – And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.
do, עשׂה
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 12:18 – So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen 13:4 – to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the LORD.
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Gen 20:9 – Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
Gen 20:10 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?"
Gen 21:8 – And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Gen 21:22 – At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Gen 21:23 – Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
Gen 22:12 – He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Gen 22:16 – and said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
give, נתן
Gen 14:20 – and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!"And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Gen 14:21 – And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."
Gen 15:10 – And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.
Gen 18:7 – And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly.
Gen 18:8 – Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
Gen 21:14 – So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen 21:27 – So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
Gen 23:13 – And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
Gen 24:36 – And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.
Gen 25:5 – Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
Gen 25:6 – But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
hear, שׁמע
Gen 14:14 – When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Gen 16:2 – And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Gen 21:12 – But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 23:6 – "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
Gen 23:11 – "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
Gen 23:15 – "My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
Gen 23:16 – Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
Gen 26:5 – because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
be, היה
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 12:16 – And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Gen 13:6 – so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
Gen 17:1 – When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Ps 105:12 – When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it,
Ezek 33:24 – "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.'
call, קרא
Gen 12:8 – From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
Gen 13:4 – to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the LORD.
Gen 16:15 – And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Gen 17:15 – And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
Gen 17:19 – God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Gen 21:3 – Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.
Gen 21:33 – Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Gen 22:14 – So Abraham called the name of that place, "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."
bury, קבר
Gen 15:15 – As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Gen 23:4 – "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Gen 23:6 – "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
Gen 23:8 – And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
Gen 23:11 – "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
Gen 23:13 – And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
Gen 23:15 – "My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
Gen 23:19 – After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
speak, דבר
Gen 18:27 – Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Gen 18:29 – Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."
Gen 18:30 – Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
Gen 18:31 – He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."
Gen 18:32 – Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."
Gen 23:3 – And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,
Gen 23:8 – And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
Gen 23:13 – And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
see, ראה
Gen 13:14 – The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen 18:2 – He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
Gen 19:28 – And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
Gen 20:10 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?"
Gen 22:4 – On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
Gen 22:13 – And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
sojourn, גור
Gen 12:10 – Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Gen 20:1 – From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Gen 21:23 – Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
Gen 21:34 – And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
Ex 6:4 – I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
arise, קום
Gen 13:17 – Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Gen 22:19 – So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Gen 23:3 – And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,
Gen 23:7 – Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
return, שׁוב
Gen 14:16 – Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.
Gen 14:17 – After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
Gen 18:33 – And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Gen 22:5 – Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
Gen 22:19 – So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
circumcise, מול
Gen 17:10 – This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Gen 17:23 – Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
Gen 17:24 – Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen 17:26 – That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
Gen 21:4 – And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
swear, שׁבע
Gen 21:23 – Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
Gen 21:24 – And Abraham said, "I will swear."
Gen 21:31 – Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
Gen 24:3 – that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
Gen 24:37 – My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,
go out, יצא
Gen 11:31 – Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen 12:4 – So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 24:5 – The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
build, בנה
Gen 12:7 – Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Gen 12:8 – From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
Gen 13:18 – So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
Gen 22:9 – When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
bow down, חוה
Gen 18:2 – He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
Gen 22:5 – Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
Gen 23:7 – Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
Gen 23:12 – Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
send, שׁלח
Gen 21:14 – So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen 22:10 – Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Gen 22:12 – He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Gen 25:6 – But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
lift, נשׂא
Gen 13:14 – The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen 22:4 – On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
Gen 22:13 – And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
keep, שׁמר
Gen 17:9 – And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Gen 17:10 – This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
bear, ילד
Gen 17:17 – Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
Gen 25:19 – These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac,
1 Chr 1:34 – Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
stand, עמד
Gen 18:8 – Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
Gen 18:22 – So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.
Gen 19:27 – And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
rise early, שׁכם
Gen 19:27 – And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
Gen 21:14 – So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
put, שׂים
Gen 21:14 – So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Gen 22:6 – And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:9 – When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
buy, קנה
Gen 25:10 – the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
Gen 49:30 – in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
Gen 50:13 – for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
pull out, נסע
Gen 12:9 – And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
Gen 20:1 – From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
report, נגד
Gen 12:18 – So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen 21:26 – Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."
ascend, עלה
Gen 13:1 – So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
be able, יכל
Gen 13:6 – so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
Gen 15:5 – And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
be firm, אמן
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
know, ידע
Gen 15:8 – But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"
Isa 63:16 – For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
fall, נפל
Gen 17:3 – Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him,
Gen 17:17 – Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
run, רוץ
Gen 18:2 – He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
Gen 18:7 – And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly.
begin, יאל
Gen 18:27 – Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Gen 18:31 – He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."
add, יסף
Gen 18:29 – Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."
Gen 25:1 – Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
pray, פלל
Gen 20:7 – Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours."
Gen 20:17 – Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
cut, כרת
Gen 21:27 – So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
Gen 21:32 – So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
stand, נצב
Gen 21:28 – Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.
Gen 21:29 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
withhold, חשׂך
Gen 22:12 – He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Gen 22:16 – and said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
pass over, עבר
Gen 12:6 – Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
advance, עתק
Gen 12:8 – From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
extend, נטה
Gen 12:8 – From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
descend, ירד
Gen 12:10 – Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
approach, קרב
Gen 12:11 – When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
be good, יטב
Gen 12:13 – Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."
turn left, שׂמאל
Gen 13:9 – Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."
go to right, ימן
Gen 13:9 – Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."
divide, פרד
Gen 13:11 – So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.
pitch a tent, אהל
Gen 13:18 – So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
dwell, שׁכן
Gen 14:13 – Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
be empty, ריק
Gen 14:14 – When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
pursue, רדף
Gen 14:14 – When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
divide, חלק
Gen 14:15 – And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
be high, רום
Gen 14:22 – But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
become rich, עשׁר
Gen 14:23 – that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
fear, ירא
Gen 15:1 – After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
count, ספר
Gen 15:5 – And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
look at, נבט
Gen 15:5 – And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
cut, בתר
Gen 15:10 – And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.
blow, נשׁב
Gen 15:11 – And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
languish, מלל
Gen 17:11 – You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
laugh, צחק
Gen 17:17 – Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
find, מצא
Gen 18:3 – and said, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
hasten, מהר
Gen 18:6 – And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes."
command, צוה
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
approach, נגשׁ
Gen 18:23 – Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
answer, ענה
Gen 18:27 – Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
look, שׁקף
Gen 19:28 – And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
drive out, גרשׁ
Gen 21:10 – So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
be evil, רעע
Gen 21:12 – But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
do falsely, שׁקר
Gen 21:23 – Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
reprove, יכח
Gen 21:25 – When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,
dig, חפר
Gen 21:30 – He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
plant, נטע
Gen 21:33 – Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
love, אהב
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
split, בקע
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
saddle, חבשׁ
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
arrange in order, ערך
Gen 22:9 – When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
bind, עקד
Gen 22:9 – When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
slaughter, שׁחט
Gen 22:10 – Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
lament, ספד
Gen 23:2 – And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
weigh, שׁקל
Gen 23:16 – Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
be old, זקן
Gen 24:1 – Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
be strong, גדל
Gen 24:35 – The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
alive, חיה
Gen 25:7 – These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.
expire, גוע
Gen 25:8 – Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
die, מות
Gen 25:8 – Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
work, serve, עבד
Josh 24:2 – And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.
possess, ירשׁ
Ezek 33:24 – "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.'
be, exist, εἰμί
Rom 4:10 – How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Heb 11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
come out, ἐξέρχομαι
Acts 7:3 – and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.'
Acts 7:4 – Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
Heb 11:8 – By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
have, ἔχω
Rom 4:2 – For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
Heb 7:6 – But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
Heb 11:15 – If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
take, λαμβάνω
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Heb 11:8 – By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Heb 11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
send, πέμπω
Lk 16:24 – And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'
Lk 16:27 – And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house–
die, ἀποθνήσκω
Jn 8:53 – Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?"
Heb 11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
know, εἴδω
Jn 8:56 – Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad."
Heb 11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
live in, κατοικέω
Acts 7:4 – Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
Heb 11:9 – By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
believe, πιστεύω
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
put to death, νεκρόω
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
Heb 11:12 – Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
show mercy, ἐλεέω, ἐλεάω
Lk 16:24 – And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'
say, ἔπω, ἐρῶ, εἶπον
Lk 16:31 – He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.'"
rejoice, χαίρω
Jn 8:56 – Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad."
become the father of, γεννάω
Acts 7:8 – And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
circumcise, περιτέμνω
Acts 7:8 – And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
pay attention, κατανοέω
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
be, exist, ὑπάρχω
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
be weak, ἀσθενέω
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
make a distinction, διακρίνω
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
give, δίδωμι
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
fulfill, πληροφορέω
Rom 4:21 – fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
take out, ἐκβάλλω
Gal 4:30 – But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."
obtain, ἐπιτυγχάνω
Heb 6:15 – And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
have patience, μακροθυμέω
Heb 6:15 – And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
turn back toward, ὑποστρέφω
Heb 7:1 – For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
come, ἔρχομαι
Heb 11:8 – By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
understand, ἐπίσταμαι
Heb 11:8 – By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
be about to, μέλλω
Heb 11:8 – By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
live as a stranger, παροικέω
Heb 11:9 – By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
wait for, ἐκδέχομαι
Heb 11:10 – For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
confess, ὁμολογέω
Heb 11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
give greetings, ἀσπάζομαι
Heb 11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
remember, μνημονεύω
Heb 11:15 – If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
return, ἀνακάμπτω
Heb 11:15 – If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
to to_step_out, ἐκβαίνω
Heb 11:15 – If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
set one's heart on, ὀρέγω
Heb 11:16 – But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
test, πειράζω
Heb 11:17 – By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
bring to, προσφέρω
Heb 11:17 – By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
bring, κομίζω
Heb 11:19 – He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
credit, λογίζομαι
Heb 11:19 – He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
lead up, ἀναφέρω
Jas 2:21 – Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
Abraham referred to as
father, אָב
Gen 22:7 – And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Gen 26:3 – Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Gen 26:15 – (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
Gen 26:18 – And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.
Gen 26:24 – And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake."
Gen 28:13 – And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Gen 31:3 – Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."
Gen 32:9 – And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,'
Gen 46:34 – you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
Gen 47:3 – Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."
Gen 47:9 – And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."
Gen 47:30 – but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."
Gen 48:15 – And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
Gen 48:16 – the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
Gen 48:21 – Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Ex 3:13 – Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?"
Ex 3:15 – God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
Ex 3:16 – Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,
Ex 4:5 – "that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
Ex 13:5 – And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
Ex 13:11 – "When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,
Num 11:12 – Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
Num 14:23 – shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
Deut 1:8 – See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'
Deut 1:11 – May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
Deut 1:21 – See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.'
Deut 1:35 – 'Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 4:31 – For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Deut 4:37 – And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
Deut 6:3 – Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deut 6:10 – "And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you–with great and good cities that you did not build,
Deut 6:18 – And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers
Deut 6:23 – And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.
Deut 7:8 – but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Deut 8:1 – "The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.
Deut 8:16 – who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
Deut 8:18 – You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 10:11 – And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.'
Deut 10:15 – Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
Deut 11:9 – and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deut 11:21 – that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
Deut 12:1 – "These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deut 13:6 – "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Deut 13:17 – None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,
Deut 19:8 – And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers–
Deut 26:3 – And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'
Deut 26:7 – Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
Deut 26:15 – Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'
Deut 27:3 – And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Deut 28:11 – And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deut 28:64 – "And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Deut 29:13 – that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 29:25 – Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
Deut 30:9 – The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,
Deut 30:20 – loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
Deut 31:7 – Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.
Deut 31:20 – For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.
Deut 32:17 – They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
Josh 24:2 – And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.
Josh 24:3 – Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.
1 Chr 29:18 – O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.
Isa 51:2 – Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
Mic 7:20 – You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Lord, אָדֹון
Gen 23:6 – "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
Gen 23:11 – "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
Gen 23:15 – "My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
Gen 24:9 – So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
Gen 24:10 – Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.
Gen 24:12 – And he said, "O LORD, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
Gen 24:27 – and said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen."
Gen 24:35 – The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
Gen 24:36 – And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.
Gen 24:37 – My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,
Gen 24:39 – I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'
Gen 24:42 – "I came today to the spring and said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go,
Gen 24:44 – and who will say to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'
Gen 24:48 – Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
Gen 24:49 – Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."
Gen 24:51 – Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."
Gen 24:54 – And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to my master."
Gen 24:56 – But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
thou, אַתָּה
Gen 13:14 – The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen 13:15 – for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Gen 15:15 – As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Gen 17:9 – And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Gen 21:22 – At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Gen 21:26 – Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."
Gen 22:12 – He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Gen 23:6 – "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
he, הוּא
Gen 13:1 – So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
Gen 14:15 – And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
Gen 18:1 – And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Gen 20:5 – Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
Gen 20:7 – Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours."
Gen 20:13 – And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
I, אָנֹכִי
Gen 15:2 – But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Gen 18:27 – Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Gen 21:24 – And Abraham said, "I will swear."
Gen 23:4 – "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Gen 24:3 – that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
servant, עֶבֶד
Gen 26:24 – And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake."
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Deut 9:27 – Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,
Ps 105:6 – O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
Ps 105:42 – For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant.
brother, אָח
Gen 13:8 – Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
Gen 20:5 – Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
Gen 20:13 – And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
Gen 20:16 – To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated."
son, בֵּן
Gen 11:31 – Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen 17:26 – That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
to, for , לְ
Deut 10:11 – And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.'
Deut 11:21 – that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
love, אהב
2 Chr 20:7 – Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
Isa 41:8 – But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
great, גָּדֹול
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
soul, נֶפֶשׁ
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
whole, כֹּל
Gen 12:20 – And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
we, אֲנַחְנוּ
Gen 13:8 – Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
Hebrew, עִבְרִי
Gen 14:13 – Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
know, ידע
Gen 15:13 – Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
man, אִישׁ
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
man, אִישׁ
Gen 20:7 – Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours."
prophet, נָבִיא
Gen 20:7 – Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours."
I, אֲנִי
Gen 22:5 – Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
one lifted up, נָשִׂיא
Gen 23:6 – "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
face, פָּנֶה
Gen 23:8 – And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Gen 31:53 – The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
one, אֶחָד
Isa 51:2 – Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
father, πατήρ
Mt 3:9 – And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
Lk 1:55 – as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever."
Lk 1:73 – the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
Lk 16:27 – And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house–
Jn 8:53 – Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?"
Jn 8:56 – Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad."
Acts 3:13 – The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
Acts 5:30 – The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
Acts 7:2 – And Stephen said:"Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Acts 7:32 – 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
Acts 13:17 – The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
Acts 13:32 – And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
Acts 13:36 – For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
Acts 22:14 – And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;
Acts 26:6 – And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
Rom 9:5 – To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 11:28 – As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
Rom 15:8 – For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
Heb 1:1 – Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
Heb 7:10 – for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.
Jas 2:21 – Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
he, αὐτός
Lk 16:23 – and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Acts 7:3 – and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.'
Acts 7:4 – Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
Acts 7:5 – Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
Acts 7:6 – And God spoke to this effect–that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
Acts 7:8 – And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
Rom 4:22 – That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:23 – But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone,
Gal 3:6 – just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
Gal 3:16 – Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
Heb 7:1 – For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
Heb 11:16 – But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Jas 2:21 – Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
Jas 2:22 – You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
1 Pet 3:6 – as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
you, σύ
Lk 16:27 – And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house–
Acts 3:25 – You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'
Acts 7:3 – and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.'
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
Rom 9:7 – and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:16 – Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
Heb 6:14 – saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."
this, οὗτος
Heb 11:12 – Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
Heb 11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
the, ὁ
Heb 11:17 – By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
Jas 2:22 – You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;
I, we, ἐγώ
Lk 16:26 – And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'
himself, ἑαυτοῦ
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
lesser, ἐλάσσων
Heb 7:7 – It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
older, πρεσβύτερος
Heb 11:2 – For by it the people of old received their commendation.
one, εἷς
Heb 11:12 – Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
friendly, φίλος
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
lord, κύριος
1 Pet 3:6 – as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
who, ὅς, ἥ
1 Pet 3:6 – as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
Abraham as explicit or implied direct object
[object marker], אֵת
Gen 12:12 – and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Gen 12:20 – And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Gen 13:6 – so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
Gen 15:3 – And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir."
Gen 15:5 – And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
Gen 15:11 – And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
Gen 17:2 – that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 20:13 – And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
Gen 21:4 – And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Deut 10:15 – Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
Deut 29:25 – Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
Josh 24:3 – Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.
bless, ברך
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 14:19 – And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
Gen 22:17 – I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
Gen 24:1 – Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Isa 51:2 – Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
hear, שׁמע
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 23:8 – And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
Gen 23:13 – And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
answer, ענה
Gen 23:5 – The Hittites answered Abraham,
Gen 23:10 – Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,
Gen 23:14 – Ephron answered Abraham,
bear, ילד
Gen 11:26 – When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Gen 11:27 – Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
take, לקח
Gen 11:31 – Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen 24:7 – The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
encounter, קרא
Gen 14:17 – After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
Gen 18:2 – He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
call, קרא
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Isa 51:2 – Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
see, ראה
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
do, עשׂה
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
strike, נכה
Gen 14:15 – And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
pursue, רדף
Gen 14:15 – And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
become rich, עשׁר
Gen 14:23 – that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
possess, ירשׁ
Gen 15:4 – And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir."
account, חשׁב
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
go out, יצא
Gen 15:7 – And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."
send, שׁלח
Gen 18:16 – Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
know, ידע
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
the hinder, אַחַר
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
remember, זכר
Gen 19:29 – So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
kill, הרג
Gen 20:11 – Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
together with, אֵת
Gen 21:2 – And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
try, נסה
Gen 22:1 – After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
ascend, עלה
Gen 22:13 – And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
bury, קבר
Gen 49:31 – There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah–
put, שׂים
Neh 9:7 – You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
oppress, עשׁק
Ps 105:14 – he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,
buy off, פדה
Isa 29:22 – Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.
be much, רבה
Isa 51:2 – Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
to see, ὁράω
Lk 13:28 – In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.
Lk 16:23 – and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Jn 8:57 – So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
to praise/bless, εὐλογέω
Heb 6:14 – saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."
Heb 7:1 – For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
Heb 7:6 – But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
to have/be, ἔχω
Mt 3:9 – And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
Lk 3:8 – Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
to ask, ἐρωτάω
Lk 16:27 – And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house–
to deport, μετοικίζω
Acts 7:4 – Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
to select, ἐκλέγω
Acts 13:17 – The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
to say, ἔπω, ἐρῶ, εἶπον
Rom 4:1 – What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
to place, τίθημι
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
to multiply, πληθύνω
Heb 6:14 – saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."
to meet, συναντάω
Heb 7:1 – For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
to tithe, δεκατόω
Heb 7:6 – But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
be ashamed of, ἐπαισχύνομαι
Heb 11:16 – But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
to obey, ὑπακούω
1 Pet 3:6 – as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
to call, καλέω
1 Pet 3:6 – as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
Abraham as explicit or implied indirect object
to, for , לְ
Gen 11:29 – And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen 12:16 – And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Gen 12:18 – So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen 12:20 – And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Gen 13:1 – So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
Gen 13:15 – for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Gen 13:17 – Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
Gen 14:13 – Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
Gen 14:21 – And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."
Gen 15:1 – After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
Gen 15:2 – But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Gen 15:3 – And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir."
Gen 15:5 – And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Gen 15:7 – And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."
Gen 15:13 – Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
Gen 16:1 – Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
Gen 16:15 – And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Gen 16:16 – Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Gen 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:8 – And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Gen 17:10 – This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Gen 17:12 – He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 17:19 – God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Gen 17:21 – But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year."
Gen 20:9 – Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
Gen 20:12 – Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
Gen 20:14 – Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
Gen 21:2 – And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
Gen 21:3 – Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.
Gen 21:5 – Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Gen 21:7 – And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
Gen 21:9 – But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.
Gen 21:10 – So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
Gen 21:12 – But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Gen 21:30 – He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Gen 22:9 – When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Gen 22:20 – Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
Gen 23:4 – "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Gen 23:8 – And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
Gen 23:9 – that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place."
Gen 23:11 – "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
Gen 23:14 – Ephron answered Abraham,
Gen 23:18 – to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
Gen 23:20 – The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.
Gen 24:2 – And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,
Gen 24:7 – The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Gen 24:9 – So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
Gen 24:35 – The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
Gen 24:36 – And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.
Gen 25:2 – She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Gen 25:6 – But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
Gen 25:12 – These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
Gen 26:3 – Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Gen 28:4 – May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!"
Gen 35:12 – The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you."
Gen 50:24 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Ex 6:3 – I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
Ex 6:4 – I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
Ex 6:8 – I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Ex 33:1 – The LORD said to Moses, "Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.'
Num 32:11 – 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
Deut 1:8 – See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'
Deut 4:31 – For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Deut 6:10 – "And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you–with great and good cities that you did not build,
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 9:27 – Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,
Deut 11:9 – and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deut 29:13 – that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 30:20 – loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
Deut 34:4 – And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."
Josh 24:3 – Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.
1 Chr 16:18 – saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance."
Mic 7:20 – You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
to, אֶל
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen 12:4 – So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen 12:7 – Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Gen 13:14 – The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen 14:21 – And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."
Gen 15:1 – After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
Gen 15:4 – And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir."
Gen 15:7 – And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."
Gen 15:9 – He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Gen 16:2 – And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Gen 17:1 – When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Gen 17:9 – And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Gen 17:15 – And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
Gen 18:1 – And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Gen 18:10 – The LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Gen 18:13 – The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'
Gen 18:14 – Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son."
Gen 18:33 – And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Gen 20:10 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?"
Gen 21:12 – But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Gen 21:22 – At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Gen 21:29 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
Gen 22:1 – After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Gen 22:7 – And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Gen 22:11 – But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
Gen 22:15 – And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven
Gen 24:5 – The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
Ex 6:3 – I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Isa 51:2 – Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
say, אמר
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen 13:14 – The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen 14:21 – And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."
Gen 15:13 – Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
Gen 16:2 – And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Gen 17:9 – And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Gen 17:15 – And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
Gen 18:13 – The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'
Gen 20:10 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?"
Gen 21:10 – So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
Gen 21:12 – But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Gen 21:22 – At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Gen 21:29 – And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
Gen 22:7 – And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
together with, אֵת
Gen 12:4 – So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen 13:5 – And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,
Gen 14:24 – I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share."
Gen 15:18 – On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
Gen 17:3 – Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him,
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:22 – When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Gen 17:23 – Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
Gen 17:27 – And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Ex 2:24 – And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Ex 6:4 – I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
2 Kgs 13:23 – But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
1 Chr 16:16 – the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,
Ps 105:9 – the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,
swear, שׁבע
Gen 26:3 – Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Gen 50:24 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Ex 33:1 – The LORD said to Moses, "Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.'
Num 32:11 – 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
Deut 1:8 – See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'
Deut 6:10 – "And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you–with great and good cities that you did not build,
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 29:13 – that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 30:20 – loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
Deut 34:4 – And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."
the hinder, אַחַר
Gen 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:8 – And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Gen 17:9 – And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Gen 17:10 – This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Gen 18:10 – The LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Deut 1:8 – See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'
Deut 4:37 – And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
Deut 10:15 – Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
with, עִם
Gen 13:1 – So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
Gen 13:14 – The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen 21:22 – At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Gen 21:23 – Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
Deut 29:25 – Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
interval, בַּיִן
Gen 13:8 – Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Gen 17:2 – that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."
Gen 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:11 – You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
Gen 23:15 – "My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
above, עַל
Gen 13:9 – Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Gen 15:12 – As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Gen 17:22 – When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Ps 105:14 – he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,
give, נתן
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
Gen 20:14 – Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
Gen 28:4 – May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!"
Gen 35:12 – The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you."
Ex 6:8 – I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"
bear, ילד
Gen 16:15 – And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Gen 16:16 – Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Gen 21:2 – And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
Gen 21:9 – But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.
Gen 25:12 – These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
out of, מִן
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 18:17 – The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
Gen 23:6 – "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
Gen 23:13 – And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
in, among , בְּ
Gen 12:3 – I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Neh 9:7 – You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
see, ראה
Gen 12:7 – Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Gen 17:1 – When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Ex 6:3 – I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
call, קרא
Gen 12:18 – So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen 20:9 – Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
Gen 22:15 – And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven
cut, כרת
Gen 15:18 – On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
1 Chr 16:16 – the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,
Ps 105:9 – the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,
report, נגד
Gen 14:13 – Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
Gen 22:20 – Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
arise, קום
Gen 23:17 – So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over
Gen 23:20 – The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.
remember, זכר
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Deut 9:27 – Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,
be good, יטב
Gen 12:16 – And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
without, בִּלְעֲדֵי
Gen 14:24 – I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share."
fall, נפל
Gen 15:12 – As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
ascend, עלה
Gen 17:22 – When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
cover, כסה
Gen 18:17 – The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
come, בוא
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
speak, דבר
Gen 18:33 – And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
company, עִמָּד
Gen 20:13 – And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
speak, מלל
Gen 21:7 – And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
they, לְ
Deut 30:20 – loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
examine, בחר
Neh 9:7 – You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
look at, נבט
Isa 51:2 – Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
to/with, πρός
Lk 1:55 – as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever."
Lk 1:73 – the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
Lk 16:26 – And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'
Acts 3:25 – You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'
Acts 7:3 – and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.'
Acts 13:32 – And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
Acts 13:36 – For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
to count, λογίζομαι
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:22 – That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:23 – But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone,
Gal 3:6 – just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
toward, εἰς
Acts 26:6 – And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."
through/because of, διά
Rom 4:23 – But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone,
Rom 11:28 – As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
Heb 7:9 – One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
from, ἀπό
Mt 1:17 – So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
Heb 11:12 – Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
to arise, ἐγείρω
Mt 3:9 – And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
Lk 3:8 – Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
with/after, μετά
Mt 8:11 – I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
Acts 7:5 – Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
to remember, μιμνήσκω
Lk 1:54 – He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,
between/meanwhile, μεταξύ
Lk 16:26 – And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'
to see, ὁράω
Acts 7:2 – And Stephen said:"Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
to show, δεικνύω
Acts 7:3 – and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.'
to give, δίδωμι
Acts 7:8 – And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
to confess/profess, ὁμολογέω
Acts 7:17 – "But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt
to call, καλέω
Rom 9:7 – and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
to speak good news, προευαγγελίζομαι
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
in/on/among, ἐν
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
with, σύν
Gal 3:9 – So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
to say, ἔπω, ἐρῶ, εἶπον
Gal 3:16 – Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
to give grace, χαρίζω
Gal 3:18 – For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
to speak, λαλέω
Heb 1:1 – Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
to profess, ἐπαγγέλλω
Heb 6:13 – For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
to make ready, ἑτοιμάζω
Heb 11:16 – But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
… of Abraham
son, בֵּן
Gen 17:23 – Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
Gen 17:25 – And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen 17:26 – That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Gen 21:3 – Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.
Gen 21:4 – And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Gen 21:5 – Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Gen 21:11 – And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Gen 22:6 – And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:7 – And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Gen 22:8 – Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:9 – When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Gen 22:10 – Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Gen 22:12 – He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Gen 22:13 – And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Gen 22:16 – and said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Gen 24:3 – that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
Gen 24:4 – but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Gen 24:5 – The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
Gen 24:6 – Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.
Gen 24:7 – The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Gen 24:8 – But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there."
Gen 24:37 – My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,
Gen 24:38 – but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.'
Gen 24:40 – But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
Gen 24:48 – Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
Gen 25:6 – But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
Gen 25:9 – Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,
Gen 25:11 – After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
Gen 25:12 – These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
Gen 25:19 – These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac,
Gen 28:9 – Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
1 Chr 1:28 – The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
seed, זֶרַע
Gen 12:7 – Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Gen 13:15 – for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Gen 13:16 – I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
Gen 15:5 – And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
Gen 15:13 – Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
Gen 15:18 – On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
Gen 17:7 – And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:8 – And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Gen 17:9 – And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Gen 17:10 – This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Gen 17:12 – He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 22:17 – I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 24:7 – The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Ex 33:1 – The LORD said to Moses, "Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.'
Deut 1:8 – See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'
Deut 4:37 – And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
Deut 10:15 – Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
Deut 11:9 – and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deut 34:4 – And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."
Josh 24:3 – Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.
2 Chr 20:7 – Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
Ps 105:6 – O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
Isa 41:8 – But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
Jer 33:26 – then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them."
woman, אִשָּׁה
Gen 11:29 – And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Gen 11:31 – Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 12:11 – When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
Gen 12:12 – and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Gen 12:17 – But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Gen 12:18 – So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen 12:19 – Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."
Gen 12:20 – And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Gen 13:1 – So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
Gen 16:1 – Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
Gen 17:15 – And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
Gen 17:19 – God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Gen 18:9 – They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is in the tent."
Gen 18:10 – The LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Gen 20:2 – And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Gen 20:11 – Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Gen 20:14 – Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
Gen 20:18 – For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Gen 23:19 – After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Gen 25:10 – the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
Gen 49:31 – There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah–
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Gen 26:24 – And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake."
Gen 28:13 – And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Gen 31:42 – If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."
Gen 31:53 – The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
Ex 3:6 – And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Ex 3:15 – God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
Ex 3:16 – Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,
Ex 4:5 – "that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
1 Kgs 18:36 – And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
1 Chr 29:18 – O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.
2 Chr 30:6 – So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Ps 47:9 – The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
father, אָב
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen 15:15 – As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Gen 20:12 – Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
Gen 20:13 – And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
Gen 24:7 – The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Gen 24:38 – but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.'
Gen 24:40 – But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
Deut 10:22 – Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Josh 24:2 – And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.
house, בַּיִת
Gen 14:14 – When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Gen 15:2 – But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Gen 15:3 – And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir."
Gen 17:13 – both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
Gen 17:23 – Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
Gen 17:27 – And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Gen 24:2 – And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,
brother, אָח
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 14:12 – They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.
Gen 14:14 – When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Gen 14:16 – Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.
Gen 22:20 – Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
Gen 22:23 – (Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Gen 24:15 – Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.
eye, עַיִן
Gen 13:14 – The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Gen 18:2 – He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
Gen 20:15 – And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."
Gen 21:11 – And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
Gen 21:12 – But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Gen 22:4 – On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
Gen 22:13 – And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
die, מות
Gen 23:3 – And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,
Gen 23:4 – "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Gen 23:6 – "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
Gen 23:8 – And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
Gen 23:11 – "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
Gen 23:13 – And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
Gen 23:15 – "My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
hand, יָד
Gen 14:20 – and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!"And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Gen 14:22 – But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
Gen 21:30 – He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
Gen 22:6 – And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:10 – Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Gen 22:12 – He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
sister, אָחֹות
Gen 12:13 – Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."
Gen 12:19 – Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."
Gen 20:2 – And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Gen 20:5 – Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
Gen 20:12 – Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
servant, עֶבֶד
Gen 14:15 – And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
Gen 24:2 – And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,
Gen 24:34 – So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.
Gen 24:52 – When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.
Gen 24:59 – So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
two, שְׁנַיִם
Gen 21:27 – So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
Gen 21:31 – Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
Gen 22:6 – And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Gen 22:8 – Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
offspring, מֹולֶדֶת
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen 24:4 – but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Gen 24:7 – The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
name, שֵׁם
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Neh 9:7 – You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
only one, יָחִיד
Gen 22:2 – He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Gen 22:12 – He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
Gen 22:16 – and said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
boy, נַעַר
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Gen 22:5 – Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
Gen 22:19 – So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
clan, מִשְׁפַּחַת
Gen 24:38 – but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.'
Gen 24:40 – But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
Gen 24:41 – Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'
day, יֹום
Gen 26:1 – Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
Gen 26:15 – (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
Gen 26:18 – And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.
earth, אֶרֶץ
Gen 12:1 – Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen 24:4 – but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
property, רְכוּשׁ
Gen 12:5 – And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 13:6 – so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
tent, אֹהֶל
Gen 12:8 – From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
Gen 13:3 – And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
neighbourhood, מְגוּרִים
Gen 17:8 – And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Ex 6:4 – I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
silver, כֶּסֶף
Gen 17:13 – both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
Gen 17:23 – Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
face, פָּנֶה
Gen 20:15 – And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."
Gen 23:4 – "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
old age, זְקֻנִים
Gen 21:2 – And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
Gen 21:7 – And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
upper thigh, יָרֵךְ
Gen 24:2 – And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,
Gen 24:9 – So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
death, מָוֶת
Gen 25:11 – After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
Gen 26:18 – And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.
bless, ברך
Gen 12:3 – I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
be slight, קלל
Gen 12:3 – I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
soul, נֶפֶשׁ
Gen 12:13 – Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."
breaking, מַסַּע
Gen 13:3 – And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
purchase, מִקְנֶה
Gen 13:7 – and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.
pasture, רעה
Gen 13:8 – Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
covenant, בְּרִית
Gen 14:13 – Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
follower, חָנִיךְ
Gen 14:14 – When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
adversary, צַר
Gen 14:20 – and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!"And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
hire, שָׂכָר
Gen 15:1 – After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
bowels, מֵעִים
Gen 15:4 – And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir."
man, אִישׁ
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
lap, חֵיק
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
foreskin, עָרְלָה
Gen 17:11 – You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
generation, דֹּור
Gen 17:12 – He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,
flesh, בָּשָׂר
Gen 17:13 – both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
heart, לֵב
Gen 17:17 – Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
place, מָקֹום
Gen 18:33 – And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
mother, אֵם
Gen 20:12 – Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
handmaid, אָמָה
Gen 21:12 – But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
he-ass, חֲמֹור
Gen 22:3 – So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
oath, שְׁבוּעָה
Gen 24:8 – But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there."
curse, אָלָה
Gen 24:41 – Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'
man, אִישׁ
Gen 24:59 – So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
duration, עֹוד
Gen 25:6 – But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
alive, חַיִּים
Gen 25:7 – These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.
people, עַם
Gen 25:8 – Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
way, עֲבוּר
Gen 26:24 – And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake."
blessing, בְּרָכָה
Gen 28:4 – May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!"
generations, תֹּולֵדֹות
1 Chr 1:29 – These are their genealogies: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
concubine, פִּלֶגֶשׁ
1 Chr 1:32 – The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
heritage, נַחֲלָה
1 Chr 16:18 – saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance."
heart, לֵבָב
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
… of Abraham (NT)
seed, σπέρμα
Jn 8:33 – They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, 'You will become free'?"
Jn 8:37 – I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
Rom 9:7 – and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
Rom 11:1 – I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 Cor 11:22 – Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.
Gal 3:29 – And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Heb 2:16 – For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.
God, θεός
Mt 22:32 – 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."
Mk 12:26 – And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
Lk 20:37 – But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
Acts 3:13 – The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
Acts 7:32 – 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
son, υἱός
Mt 1:1 – The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Lk 19:9 – And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
Gal 3:7 – Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
the, ὁ
Lk 3:34 – the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
daughter, θυγάτηρ
Lk 13:16 – And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?"
lap area, κόλπος
Lk 16:22 – The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,
child, τέκνον
Jn 8:39 – They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did,
work, ἔργον
Jn 8:39 – They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did,
family, γένος
Acts 13:26 – "Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
faith, πίστις
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
glibness, εὐλογία
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
waist, ὀσφῦς
Heb 7:5 – And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.
Abraham and …
Isaac, יִצְחָק
Gen 35:12 – The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you."
Gen 35:27 – And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
Gen 48:15 – And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
Gen 48:16 – the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
Gen 50:24 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Ex 2:24 – And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Ex 6:3 – I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
Ex 6:8 – I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"
Ex 32:13 – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
Ex 33:1 – The LORD said to Moses, "Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.'
Num 32:11 – 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
Deut 1:8 – See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'
Deut 6:10 – "And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you–with great and good cities that you did not build,
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 9:27 – Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,
Deut 29:13 – that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 30:20 – loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
Deut 34:4 – And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."
2 Kgs 13:23 – But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
Nahor, נָחֹור
Gen 11:26 – When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Gen 11:27 – Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
Gen 11:29 – And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Sarah, שָׂרָה
Gen 18:11 – Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
Gen 25:10 – the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
Gen 49:31 – There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah–
Ishmael, יִשְׁמָעֵאל
Gen 17:26 – That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
Abraham, אַבְרָהָם
Gen 22:11 – But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
… and Abraham
Abraham, אַבְרָהָם
Gen 22:11 – But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
Abraham is …
son, בֵּן
Gen 12:4 – So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen 16:16 – Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Gen 17:1 – When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Gen 17:24 – Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen 21:5 – Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
year, שָׁנָה
Gen 12:4 – So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen 16:16 – Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Gen 17:1 – When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Gen 17:24 – Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
be heavy, כָּבֵד
Gen 13:2 – Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
bless, ברך
Gen 14:19 – And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
old, זָקֵן
Gen 18:11 – Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
walk, הלך
Gen 18:16 – Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
to, for , לְ
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
great, גָּדֹול
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
mighty, עָצוּם
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
one, אֶחָד
Ezek 33:24 – "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.'
… is Abraham
name, שֵׁם
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
he, הוּא
1 Chr 1:27 – Abram, that is, Abraham.
father, πατήρ
Jn 8:39 – They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did,
Mt 16:3 – And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
Dispute between brothers
1 Cor 6:5 – I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
Holy Communion as the body of Christ
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
Our own sins
1 Cor 11:31 – But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
Spirits
1 Cor 12:10 – to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
Sermons
1 Cor 14:29 – Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
Good and evil
Heb 5:14 – But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Result of not discerning
Eat and drink judgment
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
Result of discerning
Not be judged
1 Cor 11:31 – But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
Ways to achieve discernment
Spiritual gifts
1 Cor 12:10 – to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
Weigh on what is said
1 Cor 14:29 – Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
Spiritual maturity
Heb 5:14 – But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Rom 14:23 – But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Reasons for not doubting
Faith
Mt 21:21 – And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen.
Mk 11:23 – Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Jas 1:6 – But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Know that it is from the Lord
Acts 10:20 – Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them."
Acts 11:12 – And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
No distrust
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Result of doubting
Sin
Rom 14:23 – But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Driven and tossed by the wind
Jas 1:6 – But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Need to be shown mercy
Jude 1:22 – And have mercy on those who doubt;
Result of not doubting
Being able to experience the power of the Lord
Mt 21:21 – And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen.
Mk 11:23 – Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Grow strong in faith
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Give glory to God
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Distinction/Partiality toward men (Acts 11:12; Acts 15:9; Jas 2:4)
Teachings of being impartial
Acts 11:12 – And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
1 Cor 4:7 – For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Jas 2:4 – have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Reasons for distinction and partiality
Boasting
1 Cor 4:7 – For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Judging with evil thoughts
Jas 2:4 – have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Reasons for indistinction/impartiality
Told by the Spirit
Acts 11:12 – And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
Gentiles are cleansed by faith
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
It is the Lord who makes a distinction
1 Cor 4:7 – For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Acts 11:2 – So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,
People with different levels of faith
Rom 14:1 – As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Archangel and the devil
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Why quarrel?
Over doctrine
Acts 11:2 – So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,
Over opinions
Rom 14:1 – As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Over the body of Moses
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Principles of quarrel
Welcome one who is weak
Rom 14:1 – As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Not quarrel over opinions
Rom 14:1 – As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Acts 11:2 – So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,
Which?, τίς
1 Cor 4:7 – For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Another, ἄλλος
1 Cor 14:29 – Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
Objects of "To judge/doubt" (διακρίνω)
Nothing, μηδείς
Acts 10:20 – Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them."
Acts 11:12 – And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
Jas 1:6 – But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Face, πρόσωπον
Mt 16:3 – And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
No one, οὐδείς
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
You, σύ
1 Cor 4:7 – For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Body, σῶμα
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
My/your/him-self, ἑαυτοῦ
1 Cor 11:31 – But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
Verbs with "To judge/doubt" (διακρίνω) as Subject
To eat, φαγεῖν
Rom 14:23 – But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
To resemble, εἴκω
Jas 1:6 – But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Verbs with "To judge/doubt" (διακρίνω) as Object
To know, γινώσκω
Mt 16:3 – And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
Be able, δύναμαι
1 Cor 6:5 – I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
Adverbs Modifying "To judge/doubt" (διακρίνω)
Not, μή
Mt 21:21 – And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen.
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
To speak, λέγω
Acts 11:2 – So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,
Acts 11:3 – "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
To clean, καθαρίζω
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Unbelief, ἀπιστία
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
No, οὐ
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Devilish/the Devil, διάβολος
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Words Modified by "To judge/doubt" (διακρίνω)
To go, πορεύω
Acts 10:20 – Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them."
To assemble, συνέρχομαι
Acts 11:12 – And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
To eat, ἐσθίω
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
To drink, πίνω
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
To ask, αἰτέω
Jas 1:6 – But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
To dispute, διαλέγω
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Which, ὅς, ἥ
Jude 1:22 – And have mercy on those who doubt;
Prepositions with "To judge/doubt" (διακρίνω)
Toward, εἰς
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
"To judge/doubt" (διακρίνω) with Prepositions
In/on/among, ἐν
Mk 11:23 – Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Jas 2:4 – have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
To/with, πρός
Acts 11:2 – So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,
Between/meanwhile, μεταξύ
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Each, ἀνά
1 Cor 6:5 – I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
Rom 14:1 – As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
To/with, πρός
Heb 5:14 – But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
"Discernment" (διάκρισις) of …
Reasoning, διαλογισμός
Rom 14:1 – As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Spirit/breath, πνεῦμα
1 Cor 12:10 – to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
Evil/harm, κακός
Heb 5:14 – But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Good, καλός
Heb 5:14 – But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Related topics
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2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Men
Priests, scribes, and elders
Mt 20:18 – "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death
Mt 27:3 – Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Mk 14:64 – You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death.
Men of Nineveh
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Queen of the South
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Pharisees
Mt 12:7 – And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Noah
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
The rich
Jas 5:6 – You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
Other
The law
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
2 Cor 3:9 – For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
Men’s deeds
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Who does not condemn?
Jesus
Jn 8:11 – She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
Paul
2 Cor 7:3 – I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.
Who is condemned?
Jesus the Son of Man
Mt 12:7 – And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mt 20:18 – "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death
Mt 27:3 – Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Mk 14:64 – You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death.
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
This generation
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
All men
Mt 12:37 – for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Paul
Acts 16:37 – But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out."
Acts 22:25 – But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?"
Sodom and Gomorrah
2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Those who do not believe
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
The adulterous woman
Jn 8:10 – Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
Those who judge
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Those who eat with doubt
Rom 14:23 – But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
The righteous
Jas 5:6 – You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
Reasons for condemnation
Refusal to repent
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Refusal to hear the truth
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Unbelief
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
One man’s sin
Rom 5:16 – And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Words
Mt 12:37 – for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
Blasphemy
Mk 14:64 – You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death.
Practicing the same things as others
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
For sin
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
What does not proceed from faith
Rom 14:23 – But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Ungodliness
2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Time of condemnation
Judgment time
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
When the Son of Man is in Jerusalem
Mt 20:18 – "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
When passing judgment on others
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Result of condemnation
Death
Mt 20:18 – "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Mk 14:64 – You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death.
Jas 5:6 – You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
Deliver to the Gentiles
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Condemn sin in the flesh
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
The uncondemned become heir of righteousness
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Extinction
2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
How not to be condemned
Rely on the grace of Jesus’ death and resurrection
Rom 5:16 – And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Rom 8:34 – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Believe and be baptized
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Not judge others
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Lk 6:37 – "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Not condemn others
Lk 6:37 – "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Be forgiven by Jesus
Jn 8:11 – She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
Sin no more
Jn 8:11 – She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
Be in Christ Jesus
Rom 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Be disciplined by the Lord
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Rom 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Predicates of "Condemnation" (κατάκριμα)
The/this/who, ὁ
Rom 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Prepositions with "Condemnation" (κατάκριμα)
Toward, εἰς
Rom 5:16 – And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Mk 14:64 – You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death.
To disbelieve, ἀπιστέω
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
No one, οὐδείς
Jn 8:10 – Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
I/we, ἐγώ
Jn 8:11 – She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]]
God, θεός
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Which?, τίς
Rom 8:34 – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Objects of "To condemn" (κατακρίνω)
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Mt 20:18 – "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
You, σύ
Jn 8:10 – Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
Jn 8:11 – She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]]
Liable for, ἔνοχος
Mk 14:64 – You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death.
Yourself, σεαυτοῦ
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Sin, ἁμαρτία
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
World, κόσμος
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Adverbs Modifying "To condemn" (κατακρίνω)
Death, θάνατος
Mk 10:33 – saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.
And not, οὐδέ
Jn 8:11 – She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]]
To send, πέμπω
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Not, μή
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Ruin, καταστροφή
2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
To turn to ashes, τεφρόω
2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
To place, τίθημι
2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Prepositions with "To condemn" (κατακρίνω)
In/on/among, ἐν
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
With, σύν
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Through/because of, διά
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
"To condemn" (κατακρίνω) with Prepositions
In/on/among, ἐν
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Mt 12:20 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
Mt 19:28 – Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Lk 22:30 – that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
1 Pet 4:5 – but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Heb 10:30 – For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
Rev 6:10 – They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 14:7 – And he said with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water."
Rev 16:5 – And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
Rev 16:7 – And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!"
Rev 18:8 – For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Rev 19:11 – Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
God
Jn 8:50 – Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Rom 2:2 – We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things.
Rom 2:3 – Do you suppose, O man–you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself–that you will escape the judgment of God?
Rom 2:5 – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Rom 3:6 – By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Rom 11:33 – Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
1 Cor 5:13 – God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
1 Pet 2:23 – When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
2 Pet 2:4 – For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Rev 18:8 – For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
The law
Jn 7:51 – "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
Jas 2:12 – So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
The gospel
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Heb 4:12 – For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
1 Pet 4:6 – For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
Those who sit on thrones
Rev 20:4 – Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Men
Categorization based on identity
Apostles
Mt 19:28 – Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Lk 7:43 – Simon answered, "The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt." And he said to him, "You have judged rightly."
Lk 22:30 – that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Acts 15:19 – Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Acts 16:4 – As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.
Acts 16:15 – And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
Acts 20:16 – For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
Acts 25:25 – But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.
1 Cor 2:2 – For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
2 Cor 2:1 – For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.
Tit 3:12 – When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.
Church members
1 Cor 5:12 – For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1 Cor 6:3 – Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
1 Cor 6:6 – but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
1 Cor 7:37 – But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
1 Cor 10:25 – Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Cor 10:27 – If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Cor 11:13 – Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?
2 Cor 5:14 – For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
Jas 2:4 – have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Administrative officials
Pilate
Mt 27:19 – Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream."
Lk 23:14 – and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.
Jn 19:13 – So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.
Acts 18:15 – But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things."
Acts 3:13 – The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
Rulers
Lk 12:14 – But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?"
Lk 12:58 – As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
Lk 18:2 – He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
Lk 18:6 – And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
Lk 24:20 – and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Felix
Acts 24:8 – By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him."
Acts 24:10 – And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied:"Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
Acts 24:21 – other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
Acts 25:17 – So when they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought.
Agrippa
Acts 25:6 – After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.
Acts 25:26 – But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.
Acts 26:6 – And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
Festus
Acts 25:9 – But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
Acts 25:20 – Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.
Acts 27:1 – And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.
Herod
Acts 12:19 – And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.
Acts 12:21 – On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them.
Caesar
Acts 25:10 – But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourselves know very well.
Chief priests, council
Mt 5:22 – But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Lk 24:20 – and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Acts 4:9 – if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
Acts 4:19 – But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,
Acts 23:3 – Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
Acts 23:6 – Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial."
Anyone
Mt 5:40 – And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
Jn 16:8 – And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Rom 14:5 – One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Pharisees
Mt 12:27 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Lk 11:19 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Abraham
Acts 7:5 – Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
Judges
Acts 13:20 – All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
Ourselves
Rom 14:22 – The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
Categorization based on actions
Those who judge others
Mt 7:1 – "Judge not, that you be not judged.
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Lk 6:37 – "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Rom 2:3 – Do you suppose, O man–you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself–that you will escape the judgment of God?
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Rom 14:3 – Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
Rom 14:4 – Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Rom 14:13 – Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
1 Cor 10:29 – I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Those who are spiritual
1 Cor 2:14 – The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Hypocrites
Lk 12:57 – "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
Those uncircumcised but keep the law
Rom 2:27 – Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
Sensible people
1 Cor 10:15 – I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
Those who do not understand tongues
1 Cor 14:24 – But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
Those of a particular region
People in Jerusalem
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
Acts 13:27 – For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
The Bereans
Acts 17:11 – Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
The Jews
Acts 18:12 – But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
The Romans
Acts 28:18 – When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.
The ones who do not judge
Angels
2 Pet 2:11 – whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Who are judged?
Men
This generation
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 10:14 – But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Rom 3:7 – But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Heb 9:27 – And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Jude 1:15 – to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
The world, the great Babylon, the great harlot
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
Rom 3:6 – By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1 Cor 6:4 – So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?
Rev 6:10 – They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
Rev 17:1 – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Rev 18:8 – For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
Rev 18:10 – They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
The dead
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
1 Pet 4:5 – but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
1 Pet 4:6 – For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 20:13 – And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
The living
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
1 Pet 4:5 – but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Categorization based on identity
Scribes, pharisees
Mt 12:27 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Mt 23:23 – "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Mt 23:33 – You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Lk 11:19 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Lk 11:42 – "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Lk 20:47 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
The Jews, God’s people
Mt 19:28 – Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Lk 22:30 – that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Heb 10:30 – For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
1 Pet 4:17 – For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Apostles
Paul
Acts 18:12 – But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
Acts 23:3 – Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
Acts 23:6 – Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial."
Acts 24:8 – By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him."
Acts 24:21 – other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
Acts 25:6 – After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.
Acts 25:10 – But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourselves know very well.
Acts 25:17 – So when they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought.
Acts 25:26 – But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.
Acts 26:6 – And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
Acts 28:18 – When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.
1 Cor 4:3 – But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
1 Cor 9:3 – This is my defense to those who would examine me.
Peter, John
Acts 4:9 – if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
Church members
Rom 14:3 – Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
Rom 14:22 – The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
1 Cor 6:1 – When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
1 Cor 6:6 – but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
1 Cor 10:29 – I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
1 Cor 11:31 – But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
1 Cor 14:24 – But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Jesus
Mt 27:19 – Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream."
Lk 23:14 – and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.
Lk 24:20 – and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Acts 8:33 – In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth."
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
Acts 3:13 – The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
Acts 13:27 – For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
Nations
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
Those outside
1 Cor 5:13 – God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
Categorization based on actions
Those who judge others
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Rom 2:2 – We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things.
Rom 2:3 – Do you suppose, O man–you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself–that you will escape the judgment of God?
Rom 3:8 – And why not do evil that good may come?–as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
Those who do not receive the words of Jesus
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Sinners under the law
Rom 2:12 – For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom 2:27 – Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
The sexually immoral and adulterous
1 Cor 5:5 – you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
The ungodly, unrighteousness
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Grumblers
Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Murderers
Mt 5:21 – "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'
Those who are angry with their brothers
Mt 5:22 – But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Criminals
Lk 23:40 – But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
Evil doers
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
The ones who show no mercy
Jas 2:13 – For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Teachers
Jas 3:1 – Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
The ones who swear
Jas 5:12 – But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Destroyers of the earth
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Spiritual realm
Satan
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
Jn 16:11 – concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
1 Cor 6:3 – Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
1 Tim 3:6 – He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Angels
2 Pet 2:4 – For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Jude 1:6 – And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–
Other
Food
1 Cor 10:25 – Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Cor 10:27 – If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
The Bible
Acts 17:11 – Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Spiritual matters
1 Cor 2:14 – The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
All things
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Men’s heart
Heb 4:12 – For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
The law
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
War
Rev 19:11 – Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
Result of God’s judgment
Punishment on the world
Mt 5:22 – But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Rev 17:1 – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Rev 18:10 – They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Condemnation on the unrighteous
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
1 Tim 5:24 – The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.
Punishment and wrath on the unrighteous
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Lk 20:47 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Rom 2:5 – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
2 Pet 2:3 – And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
The righteous receive God’s commendation and eternal life
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 5:29 – and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Justice is revealed
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Mt 12:20 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Sins of men are revealed
1 Tim 5:24 – The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.
Jude 1:15 – to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Men’s righteousness is proven
2 Thess 1:5 – This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering–
Reasons of condemnation
Ungodliness/unrighteousness
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
2 Thess 2:12 – in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Jude 1:15 – to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Unbelief in the gospel
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
2 Thess 2:12 – in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1 Pet 4:17 – For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Greed
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
2 Pet 2:3 – And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Indiscretion of the Holy Communion
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
1 Cor 11:34 – if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home–so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.
Pride
1 Tim 3:6 – He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Jude 1:6 – And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–
Hypocrisy
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Being impenitent
Rom 2:5 – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Resistance of authorities
Rom 13:2 – Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Troubling others’ faith
Gal 5:10 – I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Abandonment of faith
1 Tim 5:12 – and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.
Perversion of the truth
Jude 1:4 – For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Corruption of the world with immorality
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Bloodshed of the servants of God
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
How to avoid condemnation
Hear the gospel and believe in Jesus
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Not swear
Jas 5:12 – But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Worship the Creator
Rev 14:7 – And he said with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water."
Attributes of Jesus’ judgment
Duality
Punishment
Mt 5:22 – But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Mt 23:33 – You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
Jn 5:29 – and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Rom 2:5 – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Heb 10:27 – but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
2 Pet 2:3 – And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
2 Pet 2:4 – For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Rev 18:8 – For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
Rev 18:10 – They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."
Reward
2 Thess 1:5 – This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering–
Jn 5:29 – and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Perfection
Righteous
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Rom 2:5 – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
2 Thess 1:5 – This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering–
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Rev 16:5 – And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
Rev 16:7 – And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!"
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Rev 19:11 – Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
Omniscient
Mt 12:36 – I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Just
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
True
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Rev 16:7 – And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!"
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Merciful
Mt 12:20 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
Wise
Rom 11:33 – Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Merciless
Jas 2:13 – For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Timing
Mt 10:15 – Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Mt 11:22 – But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
Mt 11:24 – But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."
Mt 12:36 – I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Mt 19:28 – Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Lk 10:14 – But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Lk 22:30 – that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Acts 24:25 – And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you."
Rom 2:5 – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
1 Tim 5:24 – The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.
Heb 9:27 – And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Heb 10:27 – but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
1 Pet 4:17 – For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
2 Pet 2:4 – For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
1 Jn 4:17 – By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
Jude 1:6 – And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–
Rev 6:10 – They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 14:7 – And he said with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water."
Rev 18:8 – For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
Uniqueness of source of authority
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
2 Pet 2:11 – whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Rev 20:4 – Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Eternity of consequence
Heb 6:2 – and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Ways with which Jesus judges
Sinners await judgment
Heb 10:27 – but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
2 Pet 2:4 – For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Jude 1:6 – And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–
Fire will destroy the world in the end
Mt 5:22 – But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Heb 10:27 – but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
The condemned are sentenced to hell
Mt 23:33 – You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
As one hears, one judges
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Condemnation because of one person
Rom 5:16 – And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Principles of Jesus’ judgment
According to the what each has done
Lk 19:22 – He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Jn 7:51 – "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 20:13 – And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
According to the will of God
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
According to the truth
Rom 2:2 – We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things.
According to the law
Rom 2:12 – For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
According to the gospel
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Purposes of Jesus’ judgment
To save
Jn 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
1 Cor 5:5 – you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
To avenge for the righteous
Rev 6:10 – They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Not over matters of this world
Lk 12:14 – But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?"
To make men see
Jn 9:39 – Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."
Acts 4:9 – if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Spiritual, πνευματικός
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Objects of "To investigate" (ἀνακρίνω)
I/we, ἐγώ
Acts 28:18 – When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
1 Cor 9:3 – This is my defense to those who would examine me.
Nothing, μηδείς
1 Cor 10:25 – Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Cor 10:27 – If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
Guard, φυλακτήριος
Acts 12:19 – And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.
A writing, γραφή
Acts 17:11 – Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
All, πᾶς
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Myself, ἐμαυτοῦ
1 Cor 4:3 – But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
Verbs with "To investigate" (ἀνακρίνω) as Subject
To be, εἰμί
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Adverbs Modifying "To investigate" (ἀνακρίνω)
Today, σήμερον
Acts 4:9 – if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
Spiritually, πνευματικῶς
1 Cor 2:14 – The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
The/this/who, ὁ
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
And not, οὐδέ
1 Cor 4:3 – But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
Words Modified by "To investigate" (ἀνακρίνω)
To eat, ἐσθίω
1 Cor 10:25 – Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Cor 10:27 – If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
To find/meet, εὑρίσκω
Lk 23:14 – and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.
To order, κελεύω
Acts 12:19 – And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.
To receive, δέχομαι
Acts 17:11 – Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Be able, δύναμαι
Acts 24:8 – By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him."
To plan, βούλομαι
Acts 28:18 – When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.
Predicates of "To investigate" (ἀνακρίνω)
Lord, κύριος
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Prepositions with "To investigate" (ἀνακρίνω)
By/under, ὑπό
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
1 Cor 4:3 – But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
1 Cor 14:24 – But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
Before, ἐνώπιον
Lk 23:14 – and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.
"To investigate" (ἀνακρίνω) with Prepositions
By/under, ὑπό
1 Cor 2:15 – The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
1 Cor 4:3 – But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
1 Cor 14:24 – But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
Through/because of, διά
1 Cor 10:25 – Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Cor 10:27 – If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Acts 4:9 – if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
About, περί
Acts 24:8 – By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him.
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Prepositions with "Judgement seat" (βῆμα)
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Mt 27:19 – Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream."
Jn 19:13 – So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.
Acts 12:21 – On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them.
Acts 18:12 – But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
Acts 25:6 – After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.
Acts 25:10 – But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourselves know very well.
Acts 25:17 – So when they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought.
Before, ἔμπροσθεν
Acts 18:17 – And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
From, ἀπό
Acts 18:16 – And he drove them from the tribunal.
"Judgement seat" (βῆμα) of …
Foot, πούς
Acts 7:5 – Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
Caesar, Καῖσαρ
Acts 25:10 – But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourselves know very well.
God, θεός
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Christ, Χριστός
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Rom 2:2 – We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things.
Rom 3:8 – And why not do evil that good may come?–as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
Be first, ἄρχω
1 Pet 4:17 – For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Be idle, ἀργέω
2 Pet 2:3 – And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
To give, δίδωμι
Rev 20:4 – Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Verbs with "Judgment" (κρίμα) as Object
To take, λαμβάνω
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Lk 20:47 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Rom 13:2 – Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Jas 3:1 – Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
To have/be, ἔχω
1 Cor 6:7 – To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
1 Tim 5:12 – and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.
To escape, ἐκφεύγω
Rom 2:3 – Do you suppose, O man–you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself–that you will escape the judgment of God?
To eat, ἐσθίω
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
To drink, πίνω
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
To carry, βαστάζω
Gal 5:10 – I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
To show, δεικνύω
Rev 17:1 – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
To judge, κρίνω
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Adjectives Modifying "Judgment" (κρίμα)
Superabundant, περισσότερος
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Lk 20:47 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Eternal, αἰώνιος
Heb 6:2 – and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Great, μέγας
Jas 3:1 – Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Predicates of "Judgment" (κρίμα)
Just, ἔνδικος
Rom 3:8 – And why not do evil that good may come?–as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
Unsearchable, ἀνεξερεύνητος
Rom 11:33 – Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Appositions with "Judgment" (κρίμα)
Be about to, μέλλω
Acts 24:25 – And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you."
Prepositions with "Judgment" (κρίμα)
Toward, εἰς
Lk 24:20 – and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Jn 9:39 – Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."
1 Cor 11:34 – if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home–so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.
1 Tim 3:6 – He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Jude 1:4 – For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
In/on/among, ἐν
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Lk 23:40 – But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
About, περί
Acts 24:25 – And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you."
… of "Judgment" (κρίμα)
Teaching, διδαχή
Heb 6:2 – and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
"Judgment" (κρίμα) of …
God, θεός
Rom 2:2 – We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things.
Rom 2:3 – Do you suppose, O man–you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself–that you will escape the judgment of God?
Death, θάνατος
Lk 24:20 – and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Which, ὅς, ἥ
Rom 3:8 – And why not do evil that good may come?–as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Rom 11:33 – Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Devilish/the Devil, διάβολος
1 Tim 3:6 – He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Prostitute, πόρνη
Rev 17:1 – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
You, σύ
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
… and "Judgment" (κρίμα)
Resurrection, ἀνάστασις
Heb 6:2 – and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
Acts 15:19 – Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Acts 24:21 – other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
Acts 25:10 – But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourselves know very well.
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
You, σύ
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
1 Cor 5:12 – For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
1 Cor 10:15 – I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
God, θεός
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Rom 3:6 – By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
1 Cor 5:13 – God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
That, ἐκεῖνος
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Acts 3:13 – The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
To trust (in), πιστεύω
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Father, πατήρ
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Law, νόμος
Jn 7:51 – "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
Ruler, ἄρχων
Jn 16:11 – concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
Paul, Παῦλος
Acts 20:16 – For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
To set sail, ἀποπλέω
Acts 27:1 – And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.
To sin, ἁμαρτάνω
Rom 2:12 – For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Uncircumcision, ἀκροβυστία
Rom 2:27 – Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
And I, κἀγώ
Rom 3:7 – But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
To eat, ἐσθίω
Rom 14:3 – Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
Which, ὅς, ἥ
Rom 14:5 – One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Holy, ἅγιος
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
World, κόσμος
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
Brother, ἀδελφός
1 Cor 6:6 – but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
Freedom, ἐλευθερία
1 Cor 10:29 – I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
One, τις
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
To delight, εὐδοκέω
2 Thess 2:12 – in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Lord, κύριος
Heb 10:30 – For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
Dead, νεκρός
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Each, ἕκαστος
Rev 20:13 – And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
Objects of "To judge" (κρίνω)
This/he/she/it, οὗτος
Rom 14:13 – Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
1 Cor 7:37 – But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
2 Cor 2:1 – For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.
2 Cor 5:14 – For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
Rev 16:5 – And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
World, κόσμος
Jn 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Rom 3:6 – By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
Rev 18:8 – For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
You, σύ
Lk 19:22 – He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Rom 2:27 – Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Tribe, φυλή
Mt 19:28 – Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Lk 22:30 – that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
No one, οὐδείς
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
My/your/him-self, ἑαυτοῦ
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Rom 14:22 – The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
To write to, ἐπιστέλλω
Acts 15:19 – Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Acts 15:20 – but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
Brother, ἀδελφός
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Out/outside(r), ἔξω
1 Cor 5:12 – For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
1 Cor 5:13 – God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
To live, ζάω
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
1 Pet 4:5 – but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Dead, νεκρός
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
1 Pet 4:5 – but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Just, δίκαιος
Lk 12:57 – "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
Judgment, κρίσις
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
A human, ἄνθρωπος
Jn 7:51 – "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
Much, πολύς
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
To release, ἀπολύω
Acts 3:13 – The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
Gentiles, ἔθνος
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
Worthy, ἄξιος
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
Faithful, πιστός
Acts 16:15 – And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
World, οἰκουμένη
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
To sail past, παραπλέω
Acts 20:16 – For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
To keep/guard, φυλάσσω
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
I/we, ἐγώ
Acts 23:3 – Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
To send, πέμπω
Acts 25:25 – But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.
Unbelieving, ἄπιστος
Acts 26:8 – Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
Other, ἕτερος
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
To do/require, πράσσω
Rom 2:3 – Do you suppose, O man–you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself–that you will escape the judgment of God?
Hidden, κρυπτός
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
To eat, ἐσθίω
Rom 14:3 – Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
Slave, οἰκέτης
Rom 14:4 – Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Day, ἡμέρα
Rom 14:5 – One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
One another, ἀλλήλων
Rom 14:13 – Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
To know, εἴδω
1 Cor 2:2 – For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
One, τις
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
To workout/produce, κατεργάζομαι
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
In/inner/inwardly, ἔσω
1 Cor 5:12 – For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
Angel, ἄγγελος
1 Cor 6:3 – Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
To say, φημί
1 Cor 10:15 – I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
To winter, παραχειμάζω
Tit 3:12 – When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.
A people, λαός
Heb 10:30 – For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
Adulterer, μοιχός
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Sexual sinner, πόρνος
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Law, νόμος
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Near/neighbor, πλησίον
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Judgment, κρίμα
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Prostitute, πόρνη
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Verbs with "To judge" (κρίνω) as Subject
To bind, δέω
Acts 25:10 – But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourselves know very well.
To do/require, πράσσω
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Verbs with "To judge" (κρίνω) as Object
Be about to, μέλλω
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
Jas 2:12 – So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
To will/desire, θέλω
Mt 5:40 – And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
Acts 25:9 – But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
To have/be, ἔχω
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Be bold, τολμάω
1 Cor 6:1 – When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
To call (on)/name, ἐπικαλέω
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
To speak, λέγω
Rev 6:10 – They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
Verbs with "To judge" (κρίνω) as Indirect Object
To deliver, παραδίδωμι
1 Pet 2:23 – When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
Adjectives Modifying "To judge" (κρίνω)
All, πᾶς
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Adverbs Modifying "To judge" (κρίνω)
No, οὐ
Lk 6:37 – "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Lk 12:57 – "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Jn 12:47 – If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Acts 13:46 – And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
1 Cor 2:2 – For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Cor 11:31 – But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
Rev 6:10 – They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
Not, μή
Mt 7:1 – "Judge not, that you be not judged.
Lk 6:37 – "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Rom 14:3 – Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
Rom 14:22 – The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Which?, τίς
Lk 12:57 – "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
Acts 26:8 – Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
Rom 3:7 – But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Already, ἤδη
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
To deliver, παραδίδωμι
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
1 Cor 5:5 – you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
You, σύ
Mt 5:40 – And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
To judge, κρίνω
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Correctly, ὀρθῶς
Lk 7:43 – Simon answered, "The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt." And he said to him, "You have judged rightly."
And, καί
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Today, σήμερον
Acts 24:21 – other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
To ascend, ἀναβαίνω
Acts 25:9 – But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
There, ἐκεῖ
Acts 25:9 – But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
Where, οὗ
Acts 25:10 – But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourselves know very well.
Which, ὅς, ἥ
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
To finish, τελέω
Rom 2:27 – Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
How?, πως
Rom 3:6 – By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Still, ἔτι
Rom 3:7 – But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
More, μᾶλλον
Rom 14:13 – Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Never again, μηκέτι
Rom 14:13 – Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
To come/go, ἔρχομαι
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Be away, ἄπειμι
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
Be present, πάρειμι
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
Myself, ἐμαυτοῦ
2 Cor 2:1 – For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.
Impartially, ἀπροσωπολήπτως
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
Rightly, δικαίως
1 Pet 2:23 – When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
Flesh, σάρξ
1 Pet 4:6 – For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
Words Modified by "To judge" (κρίνω)
To sit, κάθημαι
Mt 19:28 – Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Lk 22:30 – that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Acts 23:3 – Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
To judge, κρίνω
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
To fulfill, πληρόω
Acts 13:27 – For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
To write to, ἐπιστέλλω
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality."
To stand, ἵστημι
Acts 26:6 – And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
To instruct, παιδεύω
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
To hold/oppress, συνέχω
2 Cor 5:14 – For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
To have/be, ἔχω
1 Pet 4:5 – but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Predicates of "To judge" (κρίνω)
Blessed, μακάριος
Rom 14:22 – The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
Which?, τίς
1 Cor 5:12 – For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
Prepositions with "To judge" (κρίνω)
In/on/among, ἐν
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Rom 14:22 – The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1 Cor 7:37 – But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
1 Cor 11:13 – Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Rev 19:11 – Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
According to, κατά
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
Acts 23:3 – Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
1 Pet 4:6 – For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 20:13 – And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
About, περί
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
Acts 23:6 – Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial."
Acts 24:21 – other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
Acts 25:9 – But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
Acts 25:20 – Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.
Of/from, ἐκ
Lk 19:22 – He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Through/because of, διά
Rom 2:12 – For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Jas 2:12 – So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
From, ἀπό
Lk 12:57 – "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
Before, πρό
1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
With/after, μετά
1 Cor 6:6 – but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
Until, ἕως
Rev 6:10 – They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
"To judge" (κρίνω) with Prepositions
In/on/among, ἐν
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Rom 14:22 – The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1 Cor 7:37 – But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
1 Cor 11:13 – Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Rev 19:11 – Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
According to, κατά
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Jn 18:31 – Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."
Acts 23:3 – Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
1 Pet 4:6 – For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 20:13 – And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
About, περί
Jn 8:26 – I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
Acts 23:6 – Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial."
Acts 24:21 – other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
Acts 25:9 – But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
Acts 25:20 – Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.
Of/from, ἐκ
Lk 19:22 – He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
By/under, ὑπό
Acts 16:4 – As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.
1 Cor 10:29 – I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Acts 24:21 – other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
Acts 25:9 – But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
1 Cor 6:1 – When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
Through/because of, διά
Rom 2:12 – For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Jas 2:12 – So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
From/with/beside, παρά
Acts 26:8 – Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
Rom 14:5 – One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
To take up, αἴρω
Acts 8:33 – In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth."
To come/go, ἔρχομαι
Rev 18:10 – They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."
Verbs with "Judgment" (κρίσις) as Object
To do/make, ποιέω
Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Jude 1:15 – to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
To announce, ἀπαγγέλλω
Mt 12:18 – "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
To expel, ἐκβάλλω
Mt 12:20 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
To give, δίδωμι
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
To judge, κρίνω
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
To boast, κατακαυχάομαι
Jas 2:13 – For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
To bear/lead, φέρω
2 Pet 2:11 – whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
To inflict, ἐπιφέρω
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Adjectives Modifying "Judgment" (κρίσις)
My, ἐμός
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Just, δίκαιος
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
2 Thess 1:5 – This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering–
All, πᾶς
Jn 5:22 – The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Blasphemous, βλάσφημος
2 Pet 2:11 – whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
Words Modified by "Judgment" (κρίσις)
To be, εἰμί
Mt 5:21 – "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'
Mt 5:22 – But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
To pass by, παρέρχομαι
Lk 11:42 – "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Predicates of "Judgment" (κρίσις)
This/he/she/it, οὗτος
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Just, δίκαιος
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
True, ἀληθινός
Jn 8:16 – Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
Now, νῦν
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
Merciless, ἀνίλεως
Jas 2:13 – For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Prepositions with "Judgment" (κρίσις)
In/on/among, ἐν
Mt 12:41 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Mt 12:42 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 10:14 – But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
Lk 11:31 – The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Lk 11:32 – The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Toward, εἰς
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
1 Tim 5:24 – The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.
2 Pet 2:4 – For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Jude 1:6 – And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–
About, περί
Jn 16:8 – And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Jn 16:11 – concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
From, ἀπό
Mt 23:33 – You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
By/under, ὑπό
Jas 5:12 – But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
… of "Judgment" (κρίσις)
Day, ἡμέρα
Mt 10:15 – Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Mt 11:22 – But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
Mt 11:24 – But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."
Mt 12:36 – I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
1 Jn 4:17 – By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
Resurrection, ἀνάστασις
Jn 5:29 – and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Evidence, ἔνδειγμα
2 Thess 1:5 – This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering–
Expectation, ἐκδοχή
Heb 10:27 – but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Hour, ὥρα
Rev 14:7 – And he said with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water."
"Judgment" (κρίσις) of …
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Acts 8:33 – In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth."
Rev 14:7 – And he said with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water."
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
God, θεός
Lk 11:42 – "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
2 Thess 1:5 – This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering–
You, σύ
Rev 16:7 – And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!"
Rev 18:10 – They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."
Gehenna, γέεννα
Mt 23:33 – You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
World, κόσμος
Jn 12:31 – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
A human, ἄνθρωπος
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Day, ἡμέρα
Jude 1:6 – And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–
Blasphemy, βλασφημία
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
"Judgment" (κρίσις) and …
Love, ἀγάπη
Lk 11:42 – "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Destruction, ἀπώλεια
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Mt 12:27 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Lk 11:19 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
This/he/she/it, οὗτος
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
You, σύ
Acts 24:10 – And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied:"Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
Verbs with "Judge" (κριτής) as Subject
To be, εἰμί
Lk 18:2 – He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
To deliver, παραδίδωμι
Lk 12:58 – As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
To speak, λέγω
Lk 18:6 – And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
To stand, ἵστημι
Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Verbs with "Judge" (κριτής) as Object
To appoint/conduct, καθίστημι
Lk 12:14 – But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?"
To give, δίδωμι
Acts 13:20 – All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
To plan, βούλομαι
Acts 18:15 – But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things."
To know/understand, ἐπίσταμαι
Acts 24:10 – And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied:"Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
Verbs with "Judge" (κριτής) as Indirect Object
To deliver, παραδίδωμι
Mt 5:25 – Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
Adjectives Modifying "Judge" (κριτής)
One, τις
Lk 18:2 – He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
To determine, ὁρίζω
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Just, δίκαιος
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Predicates of "Judge" (κριτής)
One, εἷς
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Appositions with "Judge" (κριτής)
God, θεός
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Be able, δύναμαι
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Prepositions with "Judge" (κριτής)
To/with, πρός
Lk 12:58 – As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
"Judge" (κριτής) with Prepositions
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Lk 12:14 – But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?"
"Judge" (κριτής) of …
You, σύ
Mt 12:27 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Lk 11:19 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Unrighteousness, ἀδικία
Lk 18:6 – And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
To live, ζάω
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Dead, νεκρός
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
This/he/she/it, οὗτος
Acts 18:15 – But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things."
All, πᾶς
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Reasoning, διαλογισμός
Jas 2:4 – have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Verbal Copula of "Judge" (κριτής)
To be, εἰμί
Mt 12:27 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Lk 11:19 – And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 18:15 – But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things."
Acts 24:10 – And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied:"Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
To be, γίνομαι
Jas 2:4 – have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
… and "Judge" (κριτής)
Lawgiver, νομοθέτης
Jas 4:12 – There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
"Judge" (κριτής) and …
Arbiter, μεριστής
Lk 12:14 – But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?"
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