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• Ruth 1:16

  Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

• Daniel 3:29

  Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.

• Daniel 4:1

  Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.

• Daniel 4:2

  It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

• Daniel 4:3

  How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

• Daniel 4:4

  I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.

• Daniel 4:5

  I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

• Daniel 4:6

  Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

• Daniel 4:7

  Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me its interpretation.

• Daniel 4:8

  But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him, saying,

• Daniel 4:9

  Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

• Daniel 4:10

  Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.

• Daniel 4:11

  The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

• Daniel 4:12

  The leaves of it were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

• Daniel 4:13

  I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

• Daniel 4:14

  He cried aloud, and said thus, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

• Daniel 4:15

  Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth:

• Daniel 4:16

  let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.

• Daniel 4:17

  The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

• Daniel 4:18

  This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

• Daniel 4:19

  Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

• Daniel 4:20

  The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;

• Daniel 4:21

  whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

• Daniel 4:22

  it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

• Daniel 4:23

  Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;

• Daniel 4:24

  this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

• Daniel 4:25

  that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

• Daniel 4:26

  Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.

• Daniel 4:27

  Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

• Daniel 4:28

  All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.

• Daniel 4:29

  At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

• Daniel 4:30

  The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

• Daniel 4:31

  While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you.

• Daniel 4:32

  You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.”

• Daniel 4:33

  This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

• Daniel 4:34

  At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

• Daniel 4:35

  All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

• Daniel 4:36

  At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.

• Daniel 4:37

  Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

• Jonah 1:5

  Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

• Jonah 1:6

  So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

• Jonah 1:9

  He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

• Jonah 1:14

  Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

• Jonah 1:16

  Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

• Matthew 9:31

  But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

• Matthew 13:4

  As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

• Matthew 13:5

  Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

• Matthew 13:7

  Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

• Matthew 13:8

  Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

• Matthew 13:19

  When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

• Matthew 13:20

  What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

• Matthew 13:21

  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

• Matthew 13:22

  What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

• Matthew 13:23

  What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

• Mark 7:36

  He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

• Luke 8:4

  When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

• Luke 8:5

  “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

• Luke 8:6

  Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

• Luke 8:7

  Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

• Luke 8:8

  Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

• Luke 8:9

  Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

• Luke 8:10

  He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

• Luke 8:11

  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

• Luke 8:12

  Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

• Luke 8:13

  Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• Luke 8:15

  That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

• Luke 8:35

  People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

• Luke 8:36

  Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

• Luke 8:37

  All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.

• Luke 8:38

  But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

• Luke 8:39

  “Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

• Luke 23:39

  One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

• Luke 23:40

  But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

• Luke 23:41

  And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

• Luke 23:42

  He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

• Luke 23:43

  Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

• John 1:40

  One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

• John 1:41

  He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ ).

• John 1:43

  On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

• John 1:44

  Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

• John 1:45

  Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

• John 4:28

  So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

• John 4:29

  “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

• John 4:30

  They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

• John 4:31

  In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

• John 4:32

  But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

• John 4:33

  The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

• John 4:34

  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

• John 4:35

  Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

• John 4:36

  He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

• John 4:37

  For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

• John 4:38

  I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

• John 4:39

  From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

• John 4:40

  So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

• John 4:41

  Many more believed because of his word.

• John 4:42

  They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

• John 9:8

  The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

• John 9:9

  Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”

• John 9:10

  They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

• John 9:11

  He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

• John 9:12

  Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”

• John 9:13

  They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

• John 9:14

  It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

• John 9:15

  Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”

• John 9:16

  Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

• John 9:17

  Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

• John 9:18

  The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

• John 9:19

  and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

• John 9:20

  His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

• John 9:21

  but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

• John 9:22

  His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

• John 9:23

  Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

• John 9:24

  So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

• John 9:25

  He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

• John 9:26

  They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

• John 9:27

  He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”

• John 9:28

  They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

• John 9:29

  We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

• John 9:30

  The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

• John 9:31

  We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

• John 9:32

  Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

• John 9:33

  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

• John 9:34

  They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.

• John 9:35

  Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

• John 9:36

  He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”

• John 9:37

  Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

• John 9:38

  He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.

• Acts 2:41

  Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

• Acts 4:4

  But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

• Acts 8:35

  Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

• Acts 8:36

  As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

• Acts 8:37
• Acts 8:38

  He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

• Acts 9:3

  As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

• Acts 9:4

  He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

• Acts 9:5

  He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

• Acts 9:6

  But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

• Acts 9:7

  The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

• Acts 9:8

  Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

• Acts 9:9

  He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

• Acts 9:10

  Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”

• Acts 9:11

  The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

• Acts 9:12

  and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”

• Acts 9:13

  But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

• Acts 9:14

  Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

• Acts 9:15

  But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

• Acts 9:16

  For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

• Acts 9:17

  Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 9:18

  Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

• Acts 13:7

  who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

• Acts 13:12

  Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

• Acts 13:43

  Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

• Acts 16:14

  A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

• Acts 16:15

  When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.

• Acts 16:27

  The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

• Acts 16:28

  But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

• Acts 16:29

  He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

• Acts 16:30

  brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

• Acts 16:31

  They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

• Acts 16:32

  They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

• Acts 16:33

  He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

• Acts 16:34

  He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

• Acts 17:4

  Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

• Acts 17:12

  Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

• Acts 26:12

  “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

• Acts 26:13

  at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

• Acts 26:14

  When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

• Acts 26:15

  “I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

• Acts 26:16

  But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

• Acts 26:17

  delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

• Acts 26:18

  to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

• Acts 26:19

  “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

• Acts 26:20

  but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

• Acts 26:21

  For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

• Acts 26:22

  Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

• Acts 26:23

  how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”