Bill Taylor Clarence Billheimer Mt. 18:15-17 explains how to do it. The American justice system of innocent until proven guilty and guilt or innocence determined by a jury of ordinary citizens instead of the rulers was based on the “diligent inquisition” required of the justice system in the Bible. We’ve seen our justice system become polluted by political considerations, but the church abandoned the pursuit of justice as required by the Bible long before the courts started falling apart. https://successful-marriage.blogspot.com/…/dont-step-in… – (6) Facebook

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Chapter 18 – The Church Led the Collapse of our Justice System

The Bible gives the church responsibility for defining the practice of justice throughout society:

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God

: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?  I Peter 4:17

“Judgment” applies to finding out whether wrong has been done, who did it, and finding the appropriate response.  This should include repentance and might include punishment.

The Bible warns of spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12[523]).  We have prayed for more than 50 years that God would reveal the wickedness.  We’ve been shocked and amazed at how few people care about all the wickedness that’s leaking out in spite of coordinated media attempts at censorship.

AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE CAME FROM THE BIBLE

American due process– innocent until proven guilty, equality before the law, rules of evidence, guilt beyond reasonable doubt, a citizen grand jury to decide if a crime has been committed, a citizen jury to determine guilt or innocence – comes from the Biblical formula for handling offenses justly:

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. ¹⁶But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established

. ¹⁷And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.  Matthew 18:15-17

The decision is not made by church leaders.  Authority to judge guilt or innocence is given to the entire church after every word about what was done and why it was done is heard from both sides.  As Nicodemus put it, “Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth (John 7:50-51)?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world

? and if the world shall be judged by you

, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? ³Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?  I Corinthians 6:2-3

The Bible places a very high value on truth:

Wherefore putting away lying

, speak every man truth with his neighbour

: for we are members one of another.  Ephesians 4:25

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth

.  I Timothy 3:15

The church body is the pillar and ground of the truth, not the leadership.  Satan’s servants lie freely:

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him

. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it

.  John 8:44

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies

: but they are not valiant for the truth

 upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. ⁴Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother

: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. ⁵And they will deceive every one his neighbour

, and will not speak the truth

: they have taught their tongue to speak lies

, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.  Jeremiah 9:3-5

Abandoning truth was one reason God dragged Israel into captivity.  Diligent search for truth is necessary for doing justice given that false witnesses and political influence on courts are to be expected:

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition

: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; ¹⁹Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.  Deuteronomy19:18-19

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor

, nor honor the person of the mighty

: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.  Leviticus 19:15

The Bible states that false witnesses must be punished and that everyone should be treated equally.  Over the last decade or so, there have been no consequences for government employees who lied for political purposes.  The way our “justice” system treats liberals differently from conservatives – innocent until proven Democrat – shows that political power governs our judicial system instead of the rule of law.

WHEN SOCIETY ABANDONED JUSTICE

We first realized that our society had abandoned due process in 1989 when our friends were falsely accused of child abuse.  Child Protection Service workers lied in court and the judge merely “corrected the record” when they were caught because the law gave them complete immunity from any liability.

Hearsay evidence was permitted and our friends were not permitted to cross-examine their accusers.  The trials were held in secret and our friends were forbidden to tell anyone what was going on.  History tells us that secrecy and immunity are the traditional tools of tyranny.

This travesty of justice came from the “Mondale Act” of 1974.  40 years later, Faith and reason wrote

“it is almost impossible to fully insulate one’s family from the threat of a system that on very little pretense can simply reach into the home and take away one’s offspring. The massive incidence of false abuse/neglect allegations shows that current law and public policy on child abuse and neglect and the routine actions of the CPS are a major threat to the American family today.”[524]

There is more detail about CPS in The Confucian Cycle – China’s Sage and America’s Decline cited above.

Knowing that a fish rots from the head and having seen injustice in lower courts, we weren’t surprised to see federal injustice.  The Obama administration’s “Dear colleague” letter declared that accusations of sexual misbehavior by any man were true by definition without due process.  This was a logical extension of the Mondale Act’s declaration that accusations against parents were true by definition without due process.

“A Legal System Corrupted”[525] documents many recent injustices by the American government:

·        The FBI’s hidden and far-too-tardy acknowledgment that the Bernie Sanders supporter who tried to murder the Republican House leadership in 2017 was a domestic terrorist.

·        The continued mistreatment (overcharging and continued solitary confinement) of several of the January 6 Capitol demonstrators compounded by the officials’ lies about it and the Department of Justice’s refusal to make available to the public the government videos of that event.

·        A claim by a defendant in the George Floyd case that a key witness in the Chauvin trial had been improperly coerced to change his testimony and the prosecution (the Minnesota attorney general’s office) did nothing to inform the defense of the interactions the defendant asserts were coercive.

HOW THE CHURCH ABANDONED JUSTICE

About 25 years ago, we were thrown out of a church which did not follow the Matthew 18:15-17 process.  We were told we’d be thrown out at the next service and that we wouldn’t be allowed to speak.  How can “every word be established (Mt. 18:16)” if we can’t speak?  How can we “hear the church (Mt. 18:17)” if the pastor announces the verdict beforehand?  The abusive pattern of ignoring the Biblical formula for truth by hearing both sides and through “diligent inquisition” in favor of pastors ruling by decree had become common enough to support an entire “spiritual abuse” publishing niche.

We’re slow learners.  We didn’t connect the decline of justice in the church with unjust court proceedings against parents or the weaponizing of government agencies which began with President Kennedy and have intensified ever since.  Societal injustice followed judicial malpractice within churches just as moral decay followed the church’s redefinition of marriage.

The Bible teaches that blame falls on every individual Christian to a greater or lesser degree.  First, the Bible teaches that church members rise or fall together:

That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another

. ²⁶And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it

; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.  I Corinthians 12:25-26

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them

; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.  Hebrews 13:3

Second, Daniel and Nehemiah both acknowledged the destruction that abandoning God’s laws had brought on God’s people, accepted their own responsibility for those sins, and confessed their part in them.

And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; ⁵We have sinned

, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:  Daniel 9:4-5

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee

: both I and my father’s house have sinned

. ⁷We have dealt very corruptly

 against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.  Nehemiah 1:6-7

God hasn’t changed (Mal. 3:6[526]).  God expects us to understand our responsibility to influence society.  God wants us to be a light to the nations (Mt. 28:19[527], Phi. 2:15[528]).  When we let our light go out, evil magnifies itself.  If you think it unrealistic to place responsibility for our ongoing societal collapse on the church’s failures, remember that the Bible teaches:

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let

, until he be taken out of the way.  II Thessalonians 2:7

When the King James Bible was published in 1611, the word “let” meant “prevent,” which is why some legal documents use the phrase “without let or hindrance” meaning that one party isn’t supposed to prevent  or get in the way of the other party from doing something mentioned in the contract.  The Holy Spirit which indwells Christians “letteth,” that is prevents, some evil in our society.  Just our presence has positive impact.

Judgment begins in the church and flows out to the rest of society by example.  That is how we got the American legal system which had so many protections for people who’re falsely accused.

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. ¹⁷ For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God

: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?  I Peter 4:16-17

“Spiritual abuse” based on false accusations is becoming more and more common (Is. 66:5[529]).  Our political system shows the same perverted justice based on the same loss of protection for citizens who fall out of favor with the hierarchy that churches have taught.  Why are we surprised that so many young people leave the church?  Jesus warned us that churches are worthless without salt (Mt. 5:13[530], Luk. 14:34[531]).

Leading the way as our justice system discards protections of unpopular individuals will let Satan’s forces attack churches – pastors are being arrested in Canada; martyrdom is coming unless we repent.

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? ⁸I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth

?  Luke 18:7-8

WHERE CHURCHES WENT WRONG

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. ¹¹Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men

;  II Corinthians 5:10-11a

Even with Heaven or Hell in the balance for our child’s soul, we persuade, we can’t command.  Young people can’t live on our convictions; they need their own.  We have from birth until they leave home to persuade them and convince them that our ways are best, or they’ll do something else when they leave.

Some churches preach the “buddy god” who loves everybody so much he’d never send anyone to Hell.  A love-only message is useless because it doesn’t tell people that God hates sin (Ps. 7:11b[532]).  How can people recognize personal failure before a Holy God, admit that they can’t save themselves, repent, and seek forgiveness without knowing how God hates all sins, even theirs (Is. 64:6[533], Ro. 3:10[534])?

Others preach the “bully god” by hammering away on God’s holiness without emphasizing His love.  The bully god wrote a bunch of rules in the Bible which the leadership interprets and extends.  The bully god watches your every thought, word, and deed to whack you with the pastor’s help when you get out of line.

Holiness without love is repugnant because it’s too harsh.  Sinners don’t want to hear about holiness alone because they don’t want to feel hopelessly bad about themselves.  Love gives hope and helps sinners accept God’s holiness.  Sinners can’t understand why Jesus had to die on the cross unless they’re taught to cling to His love as they learn to follow His path of holiness (1 Pe. 1:16[535]).

Without knowing God’s love, people can’t feel confident of His care for us (1 Pe. 5:7[536]) or of His promise never to leave us (He. 13:5[537]).  Jesus love for us keeps us following Him because we want Him to be pleased with us (2 Cor. 5:14a[538]).  We follow His holiness out of love for Him.  We can’t have one without the other.

The Bible sets a high standard for the balanced persuasion without which Christians cannot grow:

But speaking the truth in love

, may grow up into him in all things

, which is the head, even Christ:  Ephesians 4:15

Some churches hammer away at truth, particularly the parts about obeying those that have the rule over you (He. 13:7[539], 13:17[540], 13:24[541]).  Other churches preach only love.  Weaving God’s truth and God’s love together is extremely difficult.  Fathers are commanded to bring up children in both love and holiness:

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  Ephesians 6:4

Finding the right balance between God’s nurture and God’s admonition is the most difficult part of being a parent, pastor, or leader.  Persuading children while clearing away misunderstandings about word meanings and of past events instead of commanding or punishing takes a great deal of time and patience.

As we’ve stopped showing young believers God’s concern for justice by treating them unjustly, we’ve failed to persuade them.  Do we take the time to persuade, explain, encourage, discuss the Bible, and spend the hours needed to thoroughly understand their side?  If not, they walk away, carrying the message of our abandonment of God’s standard of justice out into society at large.  We see the results everywhere.

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[1] Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.  Psalm 119:11

[2] Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.  I Thessalonians 5:11

[3] Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.  Psalm 119:11

[4] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.  John 1:3

[5] But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:  John 1:12

[6] And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.  Genesis 35:18

[7] And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.  I Samuel 4:20

[8] And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.  Genesis 30:1

[9] Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.  Luke 1:25

[10] And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.  Genesis 1:31

[11] And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  Colossians 1:17

[12] Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:  Hebrews 1:3

[13] A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?  Malachi 1:6

[14] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.  Genesis 1:5

[15] This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?  Isaiah 14:26-27

[16] The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.  Isaiah 23:9

[17] Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?  Isaiah 43:13  Note: the word “let”meant “prevent” in 1611 when the KJB was published.

[18] Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.  Isaiah 46:11

[19] For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.  Jeremiah 4:28

[20] And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.  Romans 8:28

[21] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.  Proverbs 9:10

[22] The region of the air; the sky or heavens; the great arch or expanse over our heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds.

[23] And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.  Genesis 1:31

[24] And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.  Genesis 2:18

[25] Daniel reported to the “prince of the eunuchs.”  Conquerors “recruited” captives into their bureaucracies.  Family loyalties can be strong; it was prudent to deny captives the ability to form families so their loyalty would be to the administrative deep state.

[26] And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.  Genesis 29:21

[27] For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.  Galatians 5:13

[28] The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her,  Proverbs 31:11a

[29] Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  I Peter 3:7

[30] And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.  Genesis 1:29

[31] When the KJB was written, “Lucifer” was the longstanding name for Venus, the morning star.  The passage refers to the morning star, so Lucifer was an accurate translation.  Lucifer became another name for Satan because of this passage in the KJB.  Satan wants to be equal to Jesus so it’s no surprise that he would claim Jesus’ title “the bright and morning star (Rev. 22:16).”

[32] Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.  I Corinthians 10:31

[33] Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.  Proverbs 4:24

[34] The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.  Proverbs 10:32

[35] The Hebrew word for “help” is ezer used in “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my ezer (Psalm 121:1).“  God helps us when we cry.  Is a “help” inferior?  “Meet” means suitable.  A wife is a suitable help for her husband.  We used to say, “Behind every successful man there’s a woman” because of the value of a wife’s contributions to her husband’s success.

[36] And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.  Exodus 19:14-15

[37] I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.  Song of Solomon 7:10

[38] Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.  Genesis 3:16

[39] There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.  I Corinthians 7:34 

[40] I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.  I Timothy 5:14

[41] A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.  Proverbs 19:13

[42] It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.  Proverbs 21:9

[43] It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.  Proverbs 21:19

[44] It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.  Proverbs 25:24

[45] A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.  Proverbs 27:15

[46] Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ²⁹Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  Proverbs 31:28-29

[47] I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.  Song of Solomon 7:10

[48] His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.  Song of Solomon 8:3

[49] Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?  Proverbs 6:27

[50] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.  Song of Solomon 1:2

[51] And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. ¹³And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered. ¹⁴For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.  Numbers 27:12-14

[52] There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.  I Corinthians 7:34

[53] And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.  Mark 9:35

[54] And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.  Mark 10:44

[55] For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.  Matthew 11:30

[56] And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.  Jeremiah 25:12

[57] Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.  I Corinthians 11:1

[58] And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.  Mark 9:35

[59] And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.  Mark 10:44

[60] If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.  Genesis 3:31

[61] And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.  Genesis 3:15

[62] But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.  Matthew 5:22

[63] But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.  Hebrews 12:8

[64] Matthew Henry, “Commentary of Genesis 4”

[65] Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, “Commentary on Genesis 4”

[66] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.  Matthew 23:35

[67] And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.  Mark 9:35

[68] And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.  Mark 10:44

[69] Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?  II Chronicles 20:7

[70] But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.  Isaiah 41:8

[71] And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.  Exodus 33:11a

[72] And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:  Genesis 11:32-12:1

[73] Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. ⁶In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.  Proverbs 3:5-6

[74] Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.  Philippians 2:12

[75] Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. ⁶In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.  Proverbs 3:5-6

[76] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.  II Timothy 3:5

[77] Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.  II Timothy 3:12

[78] For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  John 3:16-17

[79] But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.  Genesis 6:8

[80] And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;  II Peter 2:5

[81] Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.  I Peter 3:20

[82] And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  Genesis 6:5

[83] https://arkencounter.com/noahs-ark/size/

[84] And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.  Acts 27:37

[85] https://www.vita-romae.com/roman-ships.html

[86] And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron:  Genesis 4:22a

[87] https://answersingenesis.org/geology/mount-st-helens/

[88] https://www.grisda.org/rapid-bedrock-incision-by-water-stream-outburst-the-case-of-the-oroville-dam-california-usa-1

[89] https://www.visitrenotahoe.com/things-to-do/fly-geyser-one-of-nevadas-little-surprises/

[90] And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.  Genesis 1:9

[91] I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: ¹⁵And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁷And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.  Genesis 9:13-17

[92] Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.  Ecclesiastes 8:11

[93] For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.  Romans 4:3

[94] Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.  Galatians 3:6

[95] And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.  James 2:23

[96] Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?  Genesis 18:18

[97] And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.  Genesis 22:18

[98] Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? ²⁵Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: ²⁶For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: ²⁷And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: ²⁸And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.  Deuteronomy 29:24-28

[99] And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.  Genesis 15:17

[100] And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,  I Chronicles 16:17

[101] The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.  Isaiah 24:5

[102] Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  I Peter 3:7

[103] Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.  Mark 10:15

[104] For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: ⁶Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.  I Peter 3:5-6

[105] So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.  Esther 2:8

[106] And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.  Genesis 29:21

[107] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.  Luke 17:27

[108] And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.  Genesis 29:21

[109] And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.  Mark 10:4

[110] And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.  Genesis 16:5

[111] And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.  Genesis 16:9

[112] And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.  Genesis 13:10

[113] And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.  Genesis 19:14

[114] And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.  Genesis 17:20

[115] Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.  Genesis 25:1

[116] Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.  I Chronicles 1:32

[117] But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.  Genesis 25:6

[118] That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?  Genesis 18:25

[119] And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:  II Peter 2:7

[120] Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.  Genesis 18:11

[121] And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.  Genesis 22:8

[122] And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.  Genesis 24:58

[123] And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. ⁶⁵For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.  Genesis 24:64-65

[124] And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.  Genesis 26:7

[125] And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.  Genesis 24:67

[126] And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.  I Samuel 25:42

[127] But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.  I Corinthians 7:9

[128] Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?  Acts 15:10

[129] Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.  II Timothy 2:22

[130] Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ²⁹Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  Proverbs 31:28-29

[131] Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.  Proverbs 31:10

[132] Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.  Proverbs 31:31

[133] Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  I Peter 3:7

[134] There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.  I Corinthians 7:34

[135] And God said unto Abraham, … for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.  Genesis 21:12b

[136] And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering :  Genesis 22:8a

[137] If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; ²⁹Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.  Deuteronomy 22:28-29

[138] He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.  Proverbs 13:24

[139] Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.  Proverbs 19:18

[140] Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.  Proverbs 22:15

[141] ³Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.  Proverbs 23:13-14

[142] The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.  Proverbs 29:15

[143] I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,  Malachi 1:2

[144] As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.  Romans 9:13

[145] And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.  Genesis 25:22

[146] And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.  Genesis 25:28

[147] And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.  Genesis 27:13

[148] That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?  Genesis 18:25

[149] Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.  John 4:35

[150] There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.  Genesis 49:31

[151] And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.  Genesis 35:19

[152] And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. ³³And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. ³⁴And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. ³⁵And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.  Genesis 29:32-35

[153] Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.  Genesis 31:34

[154] And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. ⁸If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. ⁹Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.  Genesis 31:7-9

[155] It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.  Genesis 31:29

[156] And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.  Genesis 32:6

[157] And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.  Genesis 35:29

[158] And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.  Genesis 33:17

[159] And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.  Genesis 37:11

[160] Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.  II Timothy 2:22

[161] Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.  Isaiah 66:5

[162] Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.  Genesis 40:23

[163] For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.  Luke 14:11

[164] And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.  Genesis 41:56-57

[165] And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.  Genesis 45:4

[166] And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their’s, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;  Genesis 15:13

[167] All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;  Genesis 46:26

[168] Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.  Exodus 1:11

[169] When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.  Hosea 11:1

[170] For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: ⁴For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.  Romans 13:3-4

[171] And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. ⁷Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?  Exodus 2:6-7

[172] Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?  James 2:25

[173] But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.  Acts 4:19

[174] And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. ⁴And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.  Exodus 2:3-4

[175] And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. ¹³And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? ¹⁴And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. ¹⁵Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.  Exodus 2:12-15

[176] Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.  Exodus 3:1

[177] And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.  Acts 7:23

[178] We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: ⁶But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.  Numbers 11:5-6

[179] And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. ¹⁶And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.  Exodus 4:15-16

[180] And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.  Exodus 32:4

[181] (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)  II Corinthians 6:2

[182] So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.  Hebrews 9:28

[183] By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  Hebrews 10:10

[184] And he [Pharaoh] called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. ³²Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. ³³And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.  Exodus 12:31-33

[185] Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. ¹¹And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? ¹²Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. ¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. ¹⁴And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.  Exodus 32:10-14

[186] And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. ¹⁷And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.  Numbers 11:16-17

[187] And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. ²⁵And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.  Numbers 11:24-25

[188] Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? ¹⁷Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. ¹⁸A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. ¹⁹Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. ²⁰Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.  Matthew 7:16-20

[189] Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.  I Timothy 3:6

[190] And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.  Genesis 21:5

[191] And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;  Matthew 27:51

[192] And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.  Mark 15:38

[193] And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.  Luke 22:19

[194] And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.  I Corinthians 11:24

[195] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.  Hebrews 10:4

[196] And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD. ¹²I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.  Exodus 16:8, 12

[197] And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?  Exodus 17:3

[198] Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.  Numbers 14:29

[199] And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.  Deuteronomy 34:4

[200] And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.  Deuteronomy 34:7

[201] And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.  Joshua 24:15

[202] And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. ¹⁰For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. ¹¹And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.  Joshua 2:9-11

[203] And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;  Matthew 1:5

[204] Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?  I Samuel 6:6

[205] And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.  Joshua 6:5

[206] But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.  Joshua 7:1

[207] So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.  Romans 12:5

[208] Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.  Ephesians 4:25

[209] And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.  Judges 3:11

[210] So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.  Judges 5:31

[211] Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.  Judges 8:28

[212] And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.  Judges 13:1

[213] Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it. ³¹And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. ³²Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.  Judges 6:30-32

[214] And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, ³⁷Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said. ³⁸And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. ³⁹And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. ⁴⁰And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.  Judges 6:36-40

[215] And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply. ²And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? ³God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.  Judges 8:1-3

[216] And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.  Judges 9:6

[217] Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.  Proverbs 31:3

[218] And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. ⁵And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.  Genesis 16:4-5

[219] And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)  Judges 9:18

[220] And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.  Judges 9:21

[221] And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.  Judges 8:33

[222] My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.  Song of Solomon 2:16

[223] I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.  Song of Solomon 6:3

[224] And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee? ¹⁷And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.  Judges 14:16-17

[225] And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.  Judges 14:19

[226] The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. ¹²She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.  Proverbs 31:11-12

[227] Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.  I Samuel 1:13

[228] And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.  II Kings 5:23

[229] The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.  II Kings 5:27

[230] Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.  James 4:8

[231] And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;  Matthew 1:5

[232] His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.  Song of Solomon 8:3

[233] Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.  Proverbs 31:10

[234] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Matthew 6:33

[235] And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.  Genesis 24:58

[236] And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.  Ruth 3:16

[237] And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.  Ruth 3:14

[238] Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.  Ruth 4:10

[239] But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.  I Peter 3:4

[240] And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.  I Samuel 8:7

[241] And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.  I Samuel 9:2

[242] And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? ¹²And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?  I Samuel 10:11-12

[243] But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.  Numbers 11:26

[244] But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.  I Samuel 16:7

[245] Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.  I Samuel 16:13

[246] And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.  I Samuel 17:25

[247] And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.  Joshua 15:16

[248] And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. ¹³And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.  Judges 1:12-13

[249] And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. ²⁶And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired. ²⁷Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. ²⁸And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.  I Samuel 18:25-28

[250] But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.  I Samuel 25:44

[251] And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain.  II Samuel 5:8a

[252] And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.  I Chronicles 11:6

[253] As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.  Psalm 103:12

[254] I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.  Isaiah 43:25

[255] And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.  Hebrews 10:17

[256] Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: ³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.  Ephesians 4:31-32

[257] How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?  Hebrews 9:14

[258] For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.  Malachi 3:6

[259] Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.  Hosea 14:2

[260] And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.  II Samuel 12:13

[261] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.  Psalm 2:9

[262] And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.  Revelation 2:27

[263] And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.  Revelation 12:5

[264] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.  Revelation 19:15

[265] And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:  Luke 22:31

[266] And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;  II Samuel 3:2

[267] If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; ²⁹Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.  Deuteronomy 22:28-29

[268] And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.  Genesis 34:30

[269] And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.  II Samuel 13:32

[270] Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;  Exodus 20:5

[271] Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.  Exodus 34:7

[272] The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.  Numbers 14:1

[273] Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,  Deuteronomy 5:9

[274] The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.  Deuteronomy 24:16

[275] And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;  II Samuel 3:3

[276] And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits. ²²And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.  I Kings 7:19, 22

[277] In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: ³⁸And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.  I Kings 6:37-38

[278] In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: ³⁸And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.  I Kings 6:37-38

[279] And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.  I Kings 11:3

[280] I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. ³His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.  Song 8:2-3

[281] Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.  Deuteronomy 17:17

[282] But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.  Genesis 40:22

[283] Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,  Nehemiah 2:2

[284] Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.  Proverbs 31:3

[285] It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: ⁵Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.  Proverbs 31:4-5

[286] Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. ⁷Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.  Proverbs 31:6-7

[287] ⁸Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. ⁹Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.  Proverbs 31:8-9

[288] She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.  Proverbs 31:12

[289] Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  I Peter 3:7

[290] The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.  Proverbs 31:11

[291] A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.  Proverbs 12:4

[292] She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.  Proverbs 31:26

[293] There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.  Proverbs 12:18

[294] Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.  Proverbs 31:28

[295] Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  Proverbs 31:29

[296] Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.  Proverbs 31:31

[297] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.  Ephesians 2:10

[298] I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:  Ecclesiastes 2:4

[299] So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.  I Corinthians 3:7

[300] Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.  Isaiah 1:2

[301] Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.  Jeremiah 2:2

[302] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.  Song of Solomon 1:2

[303] I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. ³His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.  Song 8:2-3

[304] And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?  Proverbs 5:20

[305] Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?  Proverbs 6:27

[306] And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:  Matthew 12:25

[307] But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.  Luke 11:17

[308] And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him; ¹⁴And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. ¹⁵Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ¹⁶So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.  I Kings 12:13-16

[309] Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.  I Kings 12:18

[310] For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.  I Kings 16:26

[311] And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.  I Kings 21:22

[312] And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:  I Kings 22:52

[313] Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.  II Kings 3:3

[314] Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.  II Kings 10:29

[315] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.  II Kings 13:2

[316] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  II Kings 14:24

[317] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  II Kings 15:9

[318] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  II Kings 15:18

[319] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  II Kings 15:24

[320] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  II Kings 15:28

[321] Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.  Isaiah 38:5

[322] And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.  II Kings 3:14

[323] And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. ⁴³And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof. ⁴⁴So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.  II Kings 4:42-44

[324] But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. ¹²Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.  II Kings 5:11-12

[325] For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.  II Chronicles 16:9

[326] And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.  II Chronicles 16:7

[327] Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.  II Chronicles 18:1

[328] But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah. ¹¹But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not. ¹²And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.  II Chronicles 22:10-12

[329] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.  II Timothy 3:5

[330] Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  Matthew 7:16

[331] Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.  Matthew 7:20

[332] If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  II Chronicles 7:14

[333] The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.  Psalm 34:10

[334] And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.  Jeremiah 29:13

[335] Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:  Matthew 7:7

[336] As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  Romans 3:10

[337] If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.  Colossians 3:1

[338] But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.  Hebrews 11:6

[339] But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.  II Chronicles 26:16

[340] And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.  I Samuel 13:13

[341] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  I John 1:9

[342] Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.  II Kings 23:15

[343] And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.  II Chronicles 35:25

[344] And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. ¹⁰And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.  II Kings 2:9-10

[345] And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.  I Chronicles 28:9

[346] For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.  II Corinthians 8:12

[347] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62619397

[348] Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.  Isaiah 7:14

[349] For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. ⁷Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.  Isaiah 9:6-7

[350] The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.  Isaiah 11:6

[351] I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. ⁷For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. ⁸He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.  Isaiah 50:6-8

[352] Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. ²And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. ³And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.  Isaiah 32:1-3

[353] Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. ²He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. ³A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. ⁴He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.  Isaiah 42:1-4

[354] And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.  Isaiah 34:9

[355] I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: ⁶That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.  Isaiah 45:5-6

[356] Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.  Isaiah 45:14

[357] For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.  Isaiah 45:18

[358] Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. ²²Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.  Isaiah 45:21-22

[359] Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,  Isaiah 46:9

[360] Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: ¹⁰For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.  Isaiah 47:8, 10

[361] And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  Ephesians 6:4

[362] O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!  Deuteronomy 5:29

[363] God is angry with the wicked every day.  Psalm 7:1b

[364] As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  Romans 3:10

[365] Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  I Peter 5:7

[366] For the love of Christ constraineth us;  II Corinthians 5:14a

[367] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.  Isaiah 10:2

[368] Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.  Romans 7:4

[369] He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.  Proverbs 19:26

[370] And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.  Daniel 1:15

[371] He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.  II Kings 14:25

[372] But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: ⁴⁰For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.  Matthew 12:39-41

[373] And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. ³⁰For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.  Luke 11:29-30

[374] Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?  Genesis 18:18

[375] And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.  Genesis 22:18

[376] And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;  Genesis 26:4

[377] Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? ⁸And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?  Deuteronomy 4:6-8

[378] Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.  Jeremiah 26:18

[379] He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?  Micah 6:8

[380] But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.  Micah 5:2

[381] Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. ¹⁹He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.  Micah 7:18-19

[382] For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their’s.  Habbakuk 1:6

[383] but the just shall live by his faith.  Habbakuk 2:4b

[384] For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.  Romans 1:17

[385] But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.  Galatians 3:11

[386] Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.  Hebrews 10:38

[387] For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.  Habbakuk 2:14

[388] But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.  Habbakuk 2:20

[389] Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:  Haggai 2:4

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[391] They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.  Psalm 22:18

[392] They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.  Psalm 69:21

[393] I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.  Isaiah 50:6

[394] As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:  Isaiah 52:14

[395] And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.  Daniel 9:26

[396] And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.  Zechariah 11:12

[397] And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.  Zechariah 12:10

[398] Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.  Zechariah 13:7

[399] This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?  Isaiah 14:26-27

[400] The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.  Isaiah 23:9

[401] Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: ¹¹Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.  Isaiah 46:10-11

[402] For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.  Jeremiah 4:28

[403] And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.  Romans 8:28

[404] He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.  Deuteronomy 32:10

[405] Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.  Galatians 3:6

[406] For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. ²³But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.  Galatians 4:22-23

[407] Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.  Romans 3:2

[408] And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.  Exodus 12:36

[409] Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.  Exodus 15:4

[410] And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.  Joshua 24:15

[411] For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.  Ezekiel 18:32

[412] Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?  Ezekiel 33:11

[413] For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. ⁹For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.  Isaiah 55:8-9

[414] This matter 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 ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.  Daniel 4:17

[415] For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.  I Kings 11:4

[416] Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)  Esther 1:1

[417] But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.  Ezekiel 29:4

[418] And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:  Ezekiel 38:4

[419] Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)  Esther 1:1

[420] And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.  Jeremiah 25:12

[421] But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.  Job 32:8

[422] No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.  John 6:44

[423] I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. ⁷So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.  I Corinthians 3:6-7

[424] And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.  Jeremiah 25:12

[425] https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/balfour-declaration

[426] https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration

[427] Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. ¹⁵And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. ¹⁶For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.  Malachi 2:14-16

[428] Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.  Romans 7:4

[429] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. ²⁶And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:  Matthew 7:25-26

[430] As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.  I Peter 4:10

[431] I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. ³His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.  Song 8:2-3

[432] Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. ⁸Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards. ⁹Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. ¹⁰How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!  Song 4:7-10

[433] My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.  Song of Solomon 6:9

[434] When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, ¹¹And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; ¹²Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; ¹³And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. ¹⁴And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.  Deuteronomy 21:10-14

[435] And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.  Genesis 16:3

[436] Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.  Genesis 3:16

[437] And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:  Genesis 5:3

[438] Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. ²³Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.  Matthew 1:18, 23

[439] Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. ²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.  Ephesians 5:21-24

[440] Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.  Ecclesiastes 9:9

[441] But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: ³³But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. ³⁴There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.  I Corinthians 7:32-34

[442] Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  I Peter 3:7

[443] My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.  Song of Solomon 6:9

[444] That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;  I Thessalonians 4:4

[445] The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. ¹²She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.  Proverbs 31:11-12

[446] The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.  Ruth 1:9a

[447] But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.  Matthew 5:22

[448] But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.  Hebrews 12:8

[449] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.  Matthew 23:35

[450] And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.  Mark 9:35

[451] And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.  Mark 10:44

[452] The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.  Ecclesiastes 1:9

[453] Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.  James 1:19-20

[454] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.  Matthew 7:23

[455] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!  Matthew 23:37

[456] Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.  I Corinthians 11:9

[457] I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.  Isaiah 61:10

[458] And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  Revelation 21:2

[459] But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.  I Corinthians 11:3

[460] And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.  Mark 10:44

[461] And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:  Genesis 5:3

[462] Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.  Genesis 3:16

[463] And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;  Judges 16:16

[464] Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. ¹⁰But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.  Job 2:9-10

[465] Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  Ephesians 5:25

[466] Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.  Ruth 4:1

[467] And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.  II Kings 7:20

[468] On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, ¹¹To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on. ¹²But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.  Esther 1:10-12

[469] For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory:  Psalm 84:11a

[470] Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.  Ephesians 5:33

[471] Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.  I Peter 3:6

[472] she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.  I Corinthians 7:34b

[473] The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.  I Timothy 5:2

[474] For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.  Deuteronomy 14:2

[475] And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee,   Deuteronomy 26:18a

[476] Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.  Titus 2:14

[477] But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;  I Peter 2:9

[478] But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.  Genesis 25:6

[479] Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.  Proverbs 13:12

[480] I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?  Job 31:1

[481] Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. ²Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.  I Corinthians 7:1-2

[482] Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.  Proverbs 18:22

[483] Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ²⁹Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  Proverbs 31:28-29

[484] Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?  Genesis 18:12

[485] I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. ³His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.  Song 8:2-3

[486] Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.  Matthew 19:6

[487] And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.  Mark 10:8

[488] Sexual Relations and Cultural Behavior, by J. D. Unwin (Frank M. Darrow 1969)

[489] Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.  Proverbs 29:18

[490] Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  Proverbs 31:29

[491] The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: ¹⁶The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.  Proverbs 30:15-16

[492] The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.  Proverbs 31:1

[493] Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. ⁴It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: ⁵Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. ⁶Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. ⁷Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. ⁸Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. ⁹Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.  Proverbs 31:3-9

[494] My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:  Proverbs 1:8

[495] My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:   Proverbs 6:20

[496] A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.  Proverbs 15:20

[497] He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.  Proverbs 19:26

[498] Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.  Proverbs 20:20

[499] Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.  Proverbs 23:22

[500] Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.  Proverbs 19:18

[501] Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.  Proverbs 23:13-14

[502] If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. ⁹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?  Hebrews 12:7-9

[503] Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.  Galatians 4:1-2

[504] And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  Ephesians 6:4

[505] Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski quoted in Daniel Patrick Moynihan Family and Nation, (San Diego CA: Harcourt Brace, 1986) pp. 169-170.

[506] David Popenoe, “The Controversial Truth”, New York Times December 26, 1992, A-24.

[507] And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me?  Judges 16:15

[508] The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.  Proverbs 31:11

[509] A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.  Proverbs 11:13

[510] The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.  Proverbs 19:11

[511] He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:  Proverbs 20:19a

[512] And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,  Matthew 19:4

[513] But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.  Mark 10:6

[514] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  II Timothy 2:15

[515] No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.  Matthew 6:24

[516] No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.  Luke 16:13

[517] The Hebrew word for “help” is ezer used in “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help (Psalm 121:1)?“  God helps us when we cry.  Is a “help” inferior?  “Meet” means suitable.  A wife is a suitable help for her husband.  We used to say, “Behind every successful man there’s a woman” because of the value of a wife’s contributions.

[518] Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.  Matthew 19:6

[519] What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.  Mark 10:9

[520] Mount, Jr., Eric and Bos, Johanna W. H.  “Scripture on Sexuality, Shifting Authority,” Journal of Presbyterian History 59 no. 2, (Summer 1981): 224

[521] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-559949/Downfall-decent-clan-What-Shannon-family-tree-reveals-social-breakdown-Britain.html

[522] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159476/Tennessees-deadbeat-dads-The-men-81-children-46-different-women–theyre-paying-child-support-them.html

[523] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  Ephesians 6:12

[524] https://www.faithandreason.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Mondale-Act-After-Forty-Years_-True.pdf

[525] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/a_legal_system_corrupted.html

[526] For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.  Malachi 3:6

[527] Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  Matthew 28:19

[528] That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;  Philippians 2:15

[529] Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.  Isaiah 66:5

[530] Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.  Matthew 5:13

[531] Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?  Luke 14:34

[532] God is angry with the wicked every day.  Psalm 7:11b

[533] But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.  Isaiah 64:6

[534] As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  Romans 3:10

[535] Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.  I Peter 1:16

[536] Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  I Peter 5:7

[537]Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.  Hebrews 13:5

[538] For the love of Christ constraineth us;  II Corinthians 5:14a

[539] Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.  Hebrews 13:7

[540] Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.  Hebrews 13:17

[541] Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.  Hebrews 13:24

POSTED BY BILL TAYLOR AT 12:13 PM 

1 COMMENTS:

Mary Jane Humes said…

Very well said. You covered a lot of territory in a single blog post. I especially liked where you quoted Scripture and showed the same verse but in other translations which showed the exact opposite meaning.DECEMBER 9, 2022 AT 3:53 PM

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