7149 | RUT 1:20 | ‘Do not call me Naomi,’ she said to them, ‘call me Mara, for the Almighty has given me a bitter lot. |
7153 | RUT 2:2 | Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, ‘Let me now go into the fields and gather leftover grain behind anyone who will allow me.’ ‘Go, my daughter,’ she replied. |
7155 | RUT 2:4 | When Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, ‘The Lord be with you,’ they answered him, ‘May the Lord bless you.’ |
7170 | RUT 2:19 | ‘Where did you glean today, and where did you work?’ asked her mother-in-law. ‘A blessing on him who took notice of you!’ So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. ‘The name of the man with whom I worked today,’ she said, ‘is Boaz.’ |
7171 | RUT 2:20 | Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, ‘May the blessing of the Lord rest on this man who has not ceased to show his loving-kindness to the living and to the dead. The man,’ she added, ‘is a near relation of ours.’ |
7172 | RUT 2:21 | ‘He told me,’ Ruth said, ‘that I must keep near his young men until they have completed all his harvest.’ |
7183 | RUT 3:9 | ‘Who are you?’ he said. ‘I am Ruth your servant,’ she answered, ‘Spread your cloak over your servant, for you are a near relative.’ |
7191 | RUT 3:17 | ‘He gave me these six measures of barley,’ she said, ‘for he said I should not go to my mother-in-law empty-handed.’ |
7196 | RUT 4:4 | and I thought that I would lay the matter before you, suggesting that you buy it in the presence of these men who sit here and of the elders of my people. If you will buy it and so keep it in the possession of the family, do so; but if not; then tell me, so that I may know; for no one but you has the right to buy it, and I am next to you.’ ‘I will buy it,’ he said. |
7198 | RUT 4:6 | ‘I cannot buy it for myself without spoiling my own inheritance,’ the near relative said. ‘You take my right of buying it as a relative, because I cannot do so.’ |
7200 | RUT 4:8 | So when the near relative said to Boaz, ‘Buy it for yourself,’ Boaz drew off the man’s sandal. |
12762 | EST 3:11 | ‘The money is yours,’ the king said to Haman, ‘and the people also to do with them as you wish.’ |
12787 | EST 5:4 | ‘If it seems best to the king,’ Esther said, ‘let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.’ |
12795 | EST 5:12 | ‘What is more,’ Haman said, ‘Queen Esther brought no one in with the king to the banquet which she had prepared except me, and tomorrow also I am invited by her along with the king. |
12800 | EST 6:3 | ‘What honour and dignity have been conferred on Mordecai for this?’ the king asked. When the king’s pages who waited on him replied ‘Nothing has been done for him,’ |
12826 | EST 8:5 | ‘If it seems best to the king,’ she said, ‘and if I have won his favour and he thinks it right, and if I please him, let written orders be given to revoke the dispatches devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote ordering the destruction of the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. |
12851 | EST 9:13 | ‘If it please the king,’ Esther said, ‘let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree. Let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.’ |
14083 | PSA 12:6 | ‘The poor are despoiled, and the needy are sighing; so now I will act,’ the Lord declares ‘And place them in the safety they long for.’ |
14364 | PSA 31:15 | But my trust is in you, Lord. ‘You are my God,’ I say; |
15030 | PSA 70:5 | But may all who seek after you rejoice and be glad in you. May all who love your salvation say, ‘Glory to God,’ evermore. |
15042 | PSA 71:11 | ‘God has left him,’ they say: ‘pursue and seize him, for he is helpless.’ |
15190 | PSA 78:19 | ‘Is God able,’ such was their challenge, ‘to spread in the desert a table? |
15829 | PSA 109:6 | ‘Set over him one who is godless,’ they say, ‘an opponent at his right hand. |
15926 | PSA 116:10 | I held fast my faith, though I said, ‘Ah me! I am sore afflicted,’ |
16318 | PSA 139:11 | If I say, ‘Let the darkness cover me, and night be the light about me,’ |
22173 | HOS 2:1 | Yet the number of the Israelites will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted, and where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called, ‘children of the living God.’ |
22197 | HOS 2:25 | and I will plant her in the land. I will have compassion to No-Compassion, I will say to Not-My-People, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’ |
22302 | HOS 10:8 | And the high places of Aven will be destroyed, the shrines of Israel’s sin, thorns and thistles will grow on their altars, and they will say to the mountains, ‘Cover us,’ and to the hills, ‘Fall upon us.’ |
22536 | AMO 7:3 | The Lord relented. This will not happen,’ said the Lord. |
22539 | AMO 7:6 | The Lord relented. ‘This will not happen either,’ said the Lord. |
22541 | AMO 7:8 | And the Lord said to me, ‘What do you see, Amos?’ And I answered, ‘A plumb line,’ Then the Lord said, ‘Watch: I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel, I will no longer overlook their crookedness. |
22547 | AMO 7:14 | ‘I am no prophet,’ Amos answered Amaziah, ‘nor trained as one. I am a shepherd and a keeper of sycamores fig trees. |
22695 | MIC 4:6 | ‘On that day,’ says the Lord, ‘I will assemble the lame. I will gather exiles I punished. |
22781 | NAM 2:14 | ‘But see, I am against you,’ the Lord of hosts declares, ‘I will burn your chariots in smoke and fire. The sword will devour your young lions. You will never again prey on the land. No more will your messengers be heard.’ |
22950 | ZEC 1:3 | So tell the people this message of the Lord of hosts: ‘Return to me,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and I will return to you’ says the Lord of hosts. |
22951 | ZEC 1:4 | ‘Do not be like your ancestors to whom the former prophets cried, “The Lord of hosts says to turn now from your evil ways, and from your evil deeds”. They did not heed nor listen to me,’ says the Lord. |
22990 | ZEC 3:9 | On the stone that I have set before Joshua, on one stone, are seven facets. I will engrave it,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and I will remove the guilt of that land in one day. |
22991 | ZEC 3:10 | On that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘you will each invite your neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.’ |
23023 | ZEC 6:7 | The strong horses came out, and were impatient to patrol the earth. So he said, ‘Go, patrol the earth,’ and they did so. |
23160 | MAL 1:2 | ‘I have loved you,’ says the Lord. ‘But you ask, “How have you shown love to us?” Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?’ explains the Lord of hosts, ‘yet I loved Jacob, |
23168 | MAL 1:10 | ‘If only one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you could not kindle useless fires on my altar! I have no pleasure in you,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘Nor will I accept an offering from your hand. |
23169 | MAL 1:11 | For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place they offer to my name a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations,’ says the Lord of hosts. |
23172 | MAL 1:14 | ‘Cursed be the cheat, who has in his flock a valuable male, but vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished animal! For I am a great king,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and my name is feared among the nations.’ |
23174 | MAL 2:2 | If you will not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘Then I will lay a curse on you. I will turn your blessings into curses. Indeed I have already done so, because you pay no attention. |
23176 | MAL 2:4 | You will then know that I have sent this command to you, so that my covenant with Levi may be preserved,’ says the Lord of hosts. |
23180 | MAL 2:8 | ‘But you have turned aside from that way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,’ says the Lord of hosts. |
23188 | MAL 2:16 | ‘A man who divorces or puts away his wife,’ says Lord, the God of Israel, ‘overwhelms her with cruelty.’ The Lord of hosts says: ‘Keep watch over your spirit, do not be unfaithful.’ |
23194 | MAL 3:5 | ‘I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against the sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, those who cheat workers, or widows, or orphans, deny justice to immigrants, and do not fear me,’ says the Lord of hosts. |
23196 | MAL 3:7 | ‘From the days of your ancestors, you have turned aside from my statutes, and you have not kept them. Turn to me and I will turn to you,’ says the Lord. ‘You say, “How should we turn?” |
23201 | MAL 3:12 | and all nations will call you happy, for you will be a delightful land,’ says the Lord of hosts. |
23202 | MAL 3:13 | ‘You have said terrible things about me,’ says the Lord. ‘You ask, “What have we said about you?” |
23206 | MAL 3:17 | ‘They will be mine,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘my special possession on that day that I am preparing. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. |
23208 | MAL 3:19 | ‘The day is coming that will burn like a furnace, and all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will burn them up,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘leaving neither root nor branch. |
23210 | MAL 3:21 | In the day when I act you will tread down the wicked, they will be as ashes under the soles of your feet,’ says the Lord of hosts. |
23233 | MAT 1:20 | He had been thinking this over, when an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. ‘Joseph, son of David,’ the angel said, ‘do not be afraid to take Mary for your wife, for her child has been conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. |
23243 | MAT 2:5 | ‘At Bethlehem in Judea,’ was their answer, ‘for it is said in the prophet – |
23275 | MAT 3:14 | But John tried to prevent him. ‘I need to be baptized by you,’ he said, ‘so why have you come to me?’ |
23276 | MAT 3:15 | ‘This is the way it should be for now,’ Jesus answered, ‘because we should do everything that God requires.’ So John agreed. |
23285 | MAT 4:7 | ‘Scripture also says,’ answered Jesus, ‘“You must not tempt the Lord your God.”’ |
23297 | MAT 4:19 | ‘Come and follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will teach you to fish for people.’ |
23421 | MAT 8:7 | ‘I will come and cure him,’ answered Jesus. |
23434 | MAT 8:20 | ‘Foxes have holes,’ answered Jesus, ‘and wild birds their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’ |
23466 | MAT 9:18 | While Jesus was saying this, a synagogue leader came up and bowed to the ground before him. ‘My daughter,’ he said, ‘has just died; but come and place your hand on her, and she will be restored to life.’ |
23469 | MAT 9:21 | ‘If I only touch his cloak,’ she said to herself, ‘I will get well.’ |
23478 | MAT 9:30 | Then their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly cautioned them. ‘See that no one knows of it,’ he said. |
23561 | MAT 12:3 | ‘Haven’t you read,’ replied Jesus, ‘what David did, when he and his companions were hungry – |
23597 | MAT 12:39 | ‘It is a wicked and unfaithful generation,’ answered Jesus, ‘that is asking for a sign, and no sign will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. |
23611 | MAT 13:3 | Then he told them many truths in parables. ‘The sower,’ he began, ‘went out to sow; and, |
23619 | MAT 13:11 | ‘To you,’ answered Jesus, ‘the knowledge of the hidden truths of the kingdom of heaven has been imparted, but not to those. |
23683 | MAT 14:17 | ‘We have nothing here,’ they said, ‘except five loaves and two fish.’ |
23684 | MAT 14:18 | ‘Bring them here to me,’ was his reply. |
23692 | MAT 14:26 | But, when they saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. ‘It is a ghost,’ they exclaimed, and cried out in fear. |
23707 | MAT 15:5 | but you say “Whenever anyone says to his father or mother ‘Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is set apart for God,’ |
23715 | MAT 15:13 | ‘Every plant,’ Jesus replied, ‘that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. |
23725 | MAT 15:23 | But Jesus did not answer her a word; and his disciples came up and begged him to send her away. ‘She keeps calling out after us,’ they said. |
23726 | MAT 15:24 | ‘I was not sent,’ replied Jesus, ‘to anyone except the lost sheep of Israel.’ |
23728 | MAT 15:26 | ‘It is not fair,’ replied Jesus, ‘to take the children’s food and throw it to dogs.’ |
23729 | MAT 15:27 | ‘Yes, Master,’ she said, ‘for even dogs do feed on the scraps that fall from their owners’ table.’ |
23730 | MAT 15:28 | ‘Your faith is great,’ was his reply to the woman, ‘it will be as you wish!’ And her daughter was cured that very hour. |
23735 | MAT 15:33 | ‘Where can we,’ his disciples asked, ‘in a lonely place find enough bread for such a crowd as this?’ |
23755 | MAT 16:14 | ‘Some say John the Baptist,’ they answered, ‘Others, however, say that he is Elijah, while others again say Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.’ |
23756 | MAT 16:15 | ‘But you,’ he said, ‘who do you say that I am?’ |
23758 | MAT 16:17 | ‘Blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah,’ Jesus replied. ‘For no human being has revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. |
23779 | MAT 17:10 | ‘How is it,’ his disciples asked, ‘that our teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?’ |
23780 | MAT 17:11 | ‘Elijah indeed does come,’ Jesus replied, ‘and will restore everything; |
23795 | MAT 17:26 | ‘From others,’ answered Peter. ‘Well then,’ continued Jesus, ‘their sons go free. |
23835 | MAT 19:4 | ‘Haven’t you read,’ replied Jesus, ‘that at the beginning the Creator “made them male and female,” |
23838 | MAT 19:7 | ‘Why, then,’ they said, ‘did Moses direct that a man should serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her?’ |
23839 | MAT 19:8 | ‘Moses, owing to the hardness of your hearts,’ answered Jesus, ‘permitted you to divorce your wives, but that was not so at the beginning. |
23841 | MAT 19:10 | ‘If that,’ said the disciples, ‘is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry.’ |
23842 | MAT 19:11 | ‘It is not everyone,’ replied Jesus, ‘who can accept this teaching, but only those who have been enabled to do so. |
23851 | MAT 19:20 | ‘I have observed all these,’ said the young man. ‘What is still wanting in me?’ |
23852 | MAT 19:21 | ‘If you wish to be perfect,’ answered Jesus, ‘go and sell your property, and give to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; then come and follow me.’ |
23859 | MAT 19:28 | ‘I tell you,’ answered Jesus, ‘that at the new creation, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his throne of glory, you who followed me will be seated on twelve thrones, as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel. |
23882 | MAT 20:21 | ‘What is it that you want?’ he asked. ‘I want you to say,’ she replied, ‘that in your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right, and the other on your left.’ |
23883 | MAT 20:22 | ‘You do not know what you are asking,’ was Jesus’ answer. ‘Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?’ ‘Yes,’ they exclaimed, ‘we can.’ |
23884 | MAT 20:23 | ‘You will indeed drink my cup,’ he said, ‘but as to a seat at my right and at my left – that is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.’ |
23897 | MAT 21:2 | ‘Go to the village facing you,’ he said, ‘and you will immediately find a donkey tethered, with a foal by her side; untie her, and lead her here for me. |
23916 | MAT 21:21 | ‘I tell you,’ replied Jesus, ‘if you have faith, without ever a doubt, you will do what not only what has been done to the fig tree, but, even if you should say to this hill “Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!” it would be done. |
23919 | MAT 21:24 | ‘I, too,’ said Jesus in reply, ‘will ask you one question; if you will give me an answer to it, then I, also, will tell you what authority I have to act as I do. |