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• Leviticus 21:7

  “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

• Leviticus 21:8

  You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you; for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

• Leviticus 21:9

  “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

• Leviticus 21:10

  “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.

• Leviticus 21:11

  He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father, or for his mother.

• Leviticus 21:12

  He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 21:13

  “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.

• Leviticus 21:14

  A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

• Leviticus 21:15

  He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”

• Numbers 22:18

  Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

• Numbers 22:37

  Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”

• Numbers 22:38

  Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”

• Numbers 23:8

  How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

• Numbers 23:12

  He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

• Numbers 24:12

  Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,

• Numbers 24:13

  ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?

• Numbers 24:14

  Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

• Deuteronomy 33:1

  This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

• Judges 18:4

  He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.”

• 1 Samuel 9:15

  Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

• 1 Samuel 9:16

  “Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

• 1 Samuel 10:1

  Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

• 1 Samuel 13:11

  Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

• 1 Samuel 13:12

  therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”

• 1 Samuel 13:13

  Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

• 1 Samuel 13:14

  But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”

• 1 Samuel 15:10

  Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying,

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:12

  Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:13

  Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:14

  Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

• 1 Samuel 15:15

  Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

• 1 Samuel 15:16

  Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”

• 1 Samuel 15:17

  Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

• 1 Samuel 15:18

  and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

• 1 Samuel 15:19

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

• 1 Samuel 15:20

  Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:21

  But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• 1 Samuel 15:23

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

• 1 Samuel 15:24

  Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

• 1 Samuel 15:25

  Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:26

  Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 15:27

  As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

• 1 Samuel 15:28

  Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

• 1 Samuel 15:30

  Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

• 1 Samuel 15:31

  So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 16:1

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

• 1 Samuel 16:2

  Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 16:3

  Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”

• 1 Samuel 16:4

  Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

• 1 Samuel 16:5

  He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

• 1 Samuel 16:6

  When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

• 1 Samuel 16:8

  Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

• 1 Samuel 16:9

  Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

• 1 Samuel 16:10

  Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”

• 1 Samuel 16:11

  Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

• 1 Samuel 16:12

  He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

• 1 Samuel 16:13

  Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 19:20

  Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

• 2 Samuel 12:1

  Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

• 2 Samuel 12:2

  The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

• 2 Samuel 12:3

  but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.

• 2 Samuel 12:4

  A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

• 2 Samuel 12:5

  David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!

• 2 Samuel 12:6

  He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

• 2 Samuel 12:7

  Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

• 2 Samuel 12:8

  I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

• 2 Samuel 12:9

  Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 12:10

  Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’

• 2 Samuel 12:11

  “This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

• 2 Samuel 12:12

  For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”

• 2 Samuel 12:13

  David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

• 2 Samuel 12:14

  However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

• 2 Samuel 15:24

  Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.

• 2 Samuel 15:25

  The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

• 2 Samuel 15:26

  but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

• 2 Samuel 15:27

  The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

• 1 Kings 18:17

  When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

• 1 Kings 18:18

  He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

• 1 Kings 22:13

  The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

• 1 Kings 22:14

  Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”

• 2 Kings 2:3

  The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

• 2 Kings 2:5

  The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

• 2 Kings 2:15

  When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

• 2 Kings 4:13

  He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

• 2 Kings 4:38

  Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

• 2 Chronicles 15:3

  Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

• 2 Chronicles 17:7

  Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

• 2 Chronicles 17:8

  and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 17:9

  They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

• Ezra 7:24

  Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, porters, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.

• Psalms 126:6

  He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

• Isaiah 30:20

  Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

• Isaiah 61:6

  But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.

• Isaiah 62:6

  I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

• Jeremiah 3:15

  I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

• Jeremiah 23:4

  I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 38:7

  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

• Ezekiel 3:17

  “Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

• Ezekiel 3:18

  When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

• Ezekiel 3:19

  Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”

• Ezekiel 3:20

  “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

• Ezekiel 3:21

  Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

• Ezekiel 33:7

  So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

• Ezekiel 33:8

  When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

• Ezekiel 45:4

  It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

• Joel 2:17

  Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

• Malachi 2:7

  For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 4:19

  He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

• Matthew 8:14

  When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.

• Matthew 9:38

  Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

• Matthew 10:14

  Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

• Matthew 10:15

  Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

• Matthew 10:16

  “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

• Matthew 10:17

  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

• Matthew 10:18

  Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

• Matthew 10:19

  But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

• Matthew 10:20

  For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

• Matthew 10:21

  “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

• Matthew 10:22

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

• Matthew 10:23

  But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

• Matthew 10:24

  “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

• Matthew 10:25

  It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

• Matthew 10:26

  Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

• Matthew 10:27

  What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

• Matthew 10:28

  Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

• Matthew 10:29

  “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

• Matthew 10:30

  but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

• Matthew 10:31

  Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

• Matthew 10:32

  Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 10:33

  But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 10:34

  “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

• Matthew 10:35

  For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

• Matthew 10:36

  A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

• Matthew 10:37

  He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

• Matthew 10:38

  He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

• Matthew 10:39

  He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

• Matthew 10:40

  He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

• Matthew 13:3

  He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

• 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 13:6

  When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

• 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.

• Mark 1:17

  Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”

• Mark 4:3

  “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

• Mark 4:4

  and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

• Mark 4:5

  Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

• Mark 4:6

  When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

• Mark 4:7

  Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

• Mark 4:8

  Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

• Mark 4:9

  He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Mark 4:10

  When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

• Mark 4:11

  He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

• Mark 4:12

  that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”

• Mark 4:13

  He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

• Mark 4:14

  The farmer sows the word.

• Mark 4:15

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

• Mark 4:16

  These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

• Mark 4:17

  They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

• Mark 4:18

  Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

• Mark 4:19

  and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• Mark 4:20

  Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

• Mark 6:31

  He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

• Mark 6:32

  They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

• Mark 6:45

  Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away.

• Luke 1:2

  even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

• Luke 6:13

  When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

• 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!”

• John 5:35

  He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

• John 21:16

  He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

• John 21:17

  He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

• John 21:18

  Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

• Acts 1:8

  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

• Acts 1:9

  When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

• Acts 1:10

  While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,

• Acts 5:32

  We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

• Acts 8:18

  Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

• Acts 8:19

  saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 8:20

  But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

• Acts 8:21

  You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

• Acts 8:22

  Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

• Acts 8:23

  For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

• Acts 13:1

  Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

• Acts 18:6

  When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

• Acts 20:17

  From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

• Acts 20:18

  When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

• Acts 20:19

  serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

• Acts 20:20

  how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

• Acts 20:21

  testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

• Acts 20:22

  Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

• Acts 20:23

  except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

• Acts 20:24

  But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

• Acts 20:25

  “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

• Acts 20:26

  Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,

• Acts 20:27

  for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

• Acts 20:28

  Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

• Acts 20:29

  For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

• Acts 20:30

  Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

• Acts 20:31

  Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

• Acts 20:32

  Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

• Acts 20:33

  I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.

• Acts 20:34

  You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

• Acts 20:35

  In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

• Acts 20:36

  When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

• Acts 20:37

  They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

• Acts 20:38

  sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

• 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;

• Romans 10:14

  How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

• Romans 15:16

  that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 3:12

  But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

• 1 Corinthians 3:13

  each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

• 1 Corinthians 3:14

  If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

• 1 Corinthians 3:15

  If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

• 1 Corinthians 4:1

  So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

• 1 Corinthians 9:5

  Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

• 1 Corinthians 9:20

  To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

• 1 Corinthians 9:21

  to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

• 1 Corinthians 9:22

  To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

• 1 Corinthians 9:23

  Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

• 1 Corinthians 10:23

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

• 1 Corinthians 10:28

  But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:29

  Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

• 1 Corinthians 10:30

  If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

• 1 Corinthians 10:31

  Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

• 1 Corinthians 10:32

  Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

• 1 Corinthians 10:33

  even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

• 2 Corinthians 3:6

  who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

• 2 Corinthians 4:5

  For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;

• 2 Corinthians 5:20

  We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

• 2 Corinthians 6:1

  Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

• 2 Corinthians 6:4

  but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

• 2 Corinthians 8:23

  As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

• 2 Corinthians 11:15

  It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

• 2 Corinthians 12:16

  But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

• Galatians 1:15

  But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

• Galatians 1:16

  to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

• Galatians 1:17

  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

• Galatians 1:18

  Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

• Galatians 1:19

  But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord’s brother.

• Galatians 1:20

  Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

• Galatians 1:21

  Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

• Galatians 1:22

  I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

• Galatians 1:23

  but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

• Galatians 1:24

  And they glorified God in me.

• Galatians 2:1

  Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

• Galatians 2:2

  I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

• Galatians 2:3

  But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

• Galatians 2:4

  This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

• Galatians 2:5

  to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

• Galatians 2:6

  But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man) — they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

• Galatians 2:7

  but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

• Galatians 2:8

  (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

• Galatians 2:9

  and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

• Ephesians 3:7

  of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

• Ephesians 4:11

  He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

• Philippians 1:1

  Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

• Philippians 1:7

  It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

• Philippians 2:25

  But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;

• Colossians 1:23

  if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

• Colossians 1:24

  Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;

• Colossians 1:25

  of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

• 1 Thessalonians 1:2

  We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

• 1 Thessalonians 1:3

  remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

• 1 Thessalonians 1:4

  We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

• 1 Thessalonians 2:8

  Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:11

  As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

• 1 Thessalonians 3:2

  and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

• 1 Timothy 2:7

  to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• 1 Timothy 5:17

  Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

• 1 Timothy 6:11

  But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

• 2 Timothy 2:3

  You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 2:4

  No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

• 2 Timothy 2:24

  The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

• 2 Timothy 4:5

  But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

• Titus 1:1

  Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

• Titus 1:5

  I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

• Titus 1:6

  if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

• Titus 1:7

  For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

• Titus 2:7

  in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

• Titus 2:8

  and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

• Philemon 1:1

  Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

• James 1:1

  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

• James 5:10

  Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

• 1 Peter 4:10

  As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

• 1 Peter 5:1

  Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

• 2 Peter 2:5

  and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

• 2 Peter 2:15

  forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

• 2 Peter 2:16

  but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

• Revelation 1:20

  the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.

• Revelation 2:1

  “To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

• Revelation 18:20

  “Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”