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GOD created man of the earth, and made him after his own image.
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And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself.
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He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power over all things that are upon the earth.
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He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over beasts and fowls.
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He created of him a helpmate like to himself: he gave them counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart to devise: and he filled them with the knowledge of understanding.
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He created in them the science of the spirit, he filled their heart with wisdom, and shewed them both good and evil.
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He set his eye upon their hearts to shew them the greatness of his works:
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That they might praise the name which he hath sanctified: and glory in his wondrous acts, that they might declare the glorious things of his works.
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Moreover he gave them instructions, and the law of life for an inheritance.
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He made an everlasting covenant with them, and he shewed them his justice and judgments.
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And their eye saw the majesty of his glory. and their ears heard his glorious voice, and he said to them: beware of all iniquity.
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And he gave to every one of them commandment concerning his neighbour.
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Their ways are always before him, they are not hidden from his eyes.
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Over every nation he set a ruler.
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And Israel was made the manifest portion of God.
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And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon their ways.
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Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of God.
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The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye:
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And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth.
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But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to them the lot of truth.
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Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins:
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Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less.
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Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and greatly hate abomination.
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And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the lot set before thee, and in prayer to the most high God.
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Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give praise to God.
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Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing.
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Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies.
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How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him I
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For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.
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What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved.
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He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.
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Bible Verses About love – Corinthians-1 4:17
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
Bible Verses About love – Philippians 2:12
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.
Bible Scriptures – John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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Bible Verses About love – Ephesians 4:15
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:
Bible Verses About love – Mark 12:31
And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Bible Verses About wheels – Ezekiel 26:10
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
Bible Verses About libnah – Joshua 10:31
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
Bible Verses About age – Samuel-2 11:25
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
Bible Verses About witness – Proverbs 21:28
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
Bible Verses About mary – John 11:19
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
Bible Verses About saved – Romans 11:26
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Bible Verses About reign – Genesis 36:32
And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.
Bible Verses About back – Jeremiah 8:5
Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Bible Verses About iron – Chronicles-1 29:2
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for [things to be made] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and the brass for [things] of brass, the iron for [things] of iron, and wood for [things] of wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
Bible Verses About camest – Isaiah 64:3
When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Bible Verses About running – Leviticus 14:5
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
Bible Verses About fire – Ezekiel 36:5
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Bible Verses About ought – Leviticus 25:14
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Bible Verses About elishama – Jeremiah 41:1
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
Bible Verses About fulfilled – Luke 22:16
For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Bible Verses About entered – Mark 1:21
And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Bible Verses About poured – Leviticus 8:15
And he slew [it]; and Moses took the blood, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Bible Verses About hallowed – Exodus 20:11
For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Bible Verses About tamar – Samuel-2 13:32
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.
Bible Verses About hate – John-1 4:20
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Bible Verses About joy – Matthew 28:8
And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
Bible Verses About trust – Psalms 22:5
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
Bible Verses About wife – Ezekiel 33:26
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Bible Verses About hope – Hosea 2:15
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Bible Verses About fear – Luke 8:37
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
Bible Verses About peace – Ezekiel 46:12
Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, [one] shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth [one] shall shut the gate.
Bible Verses About youth – Psalms 127:4
As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children of the youth.
Bible Verses About anger – Exodus 30:33
Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
Bible Verses About strength – Isaiah 30:2
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Bible Verses About salvation – Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Bible Verses About faith – Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Bible Verses About grace – Genesis 34:11
And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
Bible Verses About poor – Leviticus 23:22
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
Bible Verses About water – Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.
Bible Verses About health – Samuel-2 20:9
And Joab said to Amasa, [Art] thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
Bible Verses About lying – John 13:25
He then lying on Jesus’ breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
Bible Verses About dreams – Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.
Bible Verses About courage – Psalms 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Bible Verses About baptism – Colossians 2:12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Bible Verses About tongue – Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
Bible Scriptures About heart – Job 10:13
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee.
Bible Scriptures About captivity – Jeremiah 29:31
Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
Bible Scriptures About inheritance – Kings-1 21:4
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Bible Scriptures About covenant – Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Bible Scriptures About corn – Hosea 2:9
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
Bible Scriptures About david – Psalms 144:1
[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:
Bible Scriptures About obedience – Romans 1:5
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Bible Scriptures About sabbath – John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.
Bible Scriptures About begat – Genesis 5:30
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Bible Scriptures About soul – Psalms 146:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
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Bible Verses About clean – Numbers 19:14
This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.
Bible Verses About love – Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
Bible Verses About water – Leviticus 14:50
And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;
Bible Verses About heaven – 2-Kings 7:19
And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
Bible Verses About strength – 1-Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
Bible Verses About grace – Isaiah 60:10
And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
Bible Verses About friend – Judges 14:20
But Samson’s wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.
Bible Verses About peace – Isaiah 48:18
If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Bible Verses About wife – Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.
Bible Verses About fathers – Jeremiah 16:3
For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
Bible Verses About visions – 1-Chronicles 26:1
For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.
Bible Verses About giving – Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
Bible Verses About anger – 2-Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
Bible Verses About fear – Isaiah 8:9
Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:
Bible Verses About husbands – Jeremiah 44:19
And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?
Bible Verses About caring – Deuteronomy 12:19
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
Bible Verses About purpose – Philippians 1:17
But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.
Bible Verses About hope – Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord’s punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
Bible Verses About joy – Luke 1:44
For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.
Bible Verses About dreams – Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
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Bible Verses About swallow – Samuel-2 20:19
I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
Bible Verses About rebuke – Isaiah 37:3
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
Bible Verses About rahab – Joshua 6:23
And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
Bible Verses About methuselah – Chronicles-1 1:3
Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
Bible Verses About thirsty – Isaiah 35:7
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.
Bible Verses About honey – Judges 14:9
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
Bible Verses About establish – Hebrews 10:9
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Bible Verses About dawn – Joshua 6:15
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
Bible Verses About arabia – Jeremiah 25:24
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
Bible Verses About unfaithful – Psalms 78:57
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Bible Verses About hinder – Job 11:10
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Bible Verses About majesty – Isaiah 2:10
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
Bible Verses About goshen – Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest [any] men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Bible Verses About potter – Psalms 2:9
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Bible Verses About deserve – Ezra 9:13
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliverance as this;
Bible Verses About acknowledge – Corinthians-2 1:14
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Bible Verses About punishment – Lamentations 4:22
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Bible Verses About earring – Exodus 32:3
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron.
Bible Verses About hair – Luke 7:44
And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped [them] with the hairs of her head.
Bible Verses About island – Acts 27:26
Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.