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  • 1 Corinthians 10:13
    No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
     
  • Genesis 2:17
    but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
     
  • Genesis 8:1
    Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
     
  • Proverbs 15:3
    The eyes of the LORD are in every place,
    Keeping watch on the evil and the good.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 1:9
    That which has been is what will be,
    That which is done is what will be done,
    And there is nothing new under the sun.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 3:10-15
    I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
    I know that whatever God does,
    It shall be forever.
    Nothing can be added to it,
    And nothing taken from it.
    God does it, that men should fear before Him.
    That which is has already been,
    And what is to be has already been;
    And God requires an account of what is past.
     
  • Malachi 3:6
    "For I am the LORD, I do not change;
    Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.

     
  • Romans 8:28-32
    And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
     
  • Ephesians 2:1
    And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
     
  • Ephesians 2:10
    For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
     
  • Hebrews 4:12-13
    For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
     
  • Hebrews 10:29
    Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
     
  • Hebrews 13:8
    Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
     
  • James 1:17
    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
     
  • Revelation 2:10
    Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
     
  • Genesis 9:14-15
    It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
     
  • Genesis 19:29
    And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
     
  • Exodus 2:24-25
    So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.
     
  • Exodus 21:15-17
    "And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. "He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death. "And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
     
  • Exodus 22:19-20
    “Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death. “He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
     
  • Exodus 35:2
    Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
     
  • Leviticus 19:8
    Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed offering of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
     
  • Leviticus 20:2
    “Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
     
  • Leviticus 21:9
    The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
     
  • Numbers 23:19
    "God is not a man, that He should lie,
    Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
    Has He said, and will He not do?
    Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
     
  • Deuteronomy 8:2
    And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
     
  • Deuteronomy 30:11
    "For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.
     
  • Job 23:1-17
    Then Job answered and said: “Even today my complaint is bitter;
    My hand is listless because of my groaning. Oh, that I knew where I might find Him,
    That I might come to His seat! I would present my case before Him,
    And fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which He would answer me,
    And understand what He would say to me. Would He contend with me in His great power?
    No! But He would take note of me. There the upright could reason with Him,
    And I would be delivered forever from my Judge. “Look, I go forward, but He is not there,
    And backward, but I cannot perceive Him; When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him;
    When He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him. But He knows the way that I take;
    When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps;
    I have kept His way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips;
    I have treasured the words of His mouth
    More than my necessary food. "But He is unique, and who can make Him change?
    And whatever His soul desires, that He does. For He performs what is appointed for me,
    And many such things are with Him. Therefore I am terrified at His presence;
    When I consider this, I am afraid of Him. For God made my heart weak,
    And the Almighty terrifies me; Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness,
    And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.
     
  • Job 31:1-9
    “I have made a covenant with my eyes;
    Why then should I look upon a young woman? For what is the allotment of God from above,
    And the inheritance of the Almighty from on high? Is it not destruction for the wicked,
    And disaster for the workers of iniquity? Does He not see my ways,
    And count all my steps? “If I have walked with falsehood,
    Or if my foot has hastened to deceit, Let me be weighed on honest scales,
    That God may know my integrity. If my step has turned from the way,
    Or my heart walked after my eyes,
    Or if any spot adheres to my hands, Then let me sow, and another eat;
    Yes, let my harvest be rooted out. “If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
    Or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
     
  • Job 31:13
    “If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant
    When they complained against me,
     
  • Job 31:16
    “If I have kept the poor from their desire,
    Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
     
  • Job 31:29
    “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,
    Or lifted myself up when evil found him
     
  • Job 31:35-40
    Oh, that I had one to hear me!
    Here is my mark.
    Oh, that the Almighty would answer me,
    That my Prosecutor had written a book! Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,
    And bind it on me like a crown; I would declare to Him the number of my steps;
    Like a prince I would approach Him. “If my land cries out against me,
    And its furrows weep together; If I have eaten its fruit without money,
    Or caused its owners to lose their lives; Then let thistles grow instead of wheat,
    And weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
     
  • Job 34:18
    Is it fitting to say to a king, ‘You are worthless,’
    And to nobles, ‘You are wicked’?
     
  • Job 42:6
    Therefore I abhor myself,
    And repent in dust and ashes."
     
  • Psalm 33:8
    Let all the earth fear the LORD;
    Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

     
  • Psalm 33:18
    Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him,
    On those who hope in His mercy,

     
  • Psalm 34:7
    The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him,
    And delivers them.
     
  • Psalm 34:9
    Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints!
    There is no want to those who fear Him.

     
  • Psalm 34:11
    Come, you children, listen to me;
    I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

     
  • Psalm 40:1-5
    I waited patiently for the LORD;
    And He inclined to me,
    And heard my cry.
    He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
    Out of the miry clay,
    And set my feet upon a rock,
    And established my steps.
    He has put a new song in my mouth'
    Praise to our God;
    Many will see it and fear,
    And will trust in the LORD. Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust,
    And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
    Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works
    Which You have done;
    And Your thoughts toward us
    Cannot be recounted to You in order;
    If I would declare and speak of them,
    They are more than can be numbered.
     
  • Psalm 84:11
    For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
    The LORD will give grace and glory;
    No good thing will He withhold
    From those who walk uprightly.
     
  • Psalm 136:1-5
    Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
    For His mercy endures forever.
    Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
    For His mercy endures forever.
    Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
    For His mercy endures forever: To Him who alone does great wonders,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    To Him who by wisdom made the heavens,
    For His mercy endures forever;

     
  • Psalm 136:11-12
    And brought out Israel from among them,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
    For His mercy endures forever;

     
  • Psalm 136:23-24
    Who remembered us in our lowly state,
    For His mercy endures forever;
    And rescued us from our enemies,
    For His mercy endures forever;

     
  • Proverbs 17:3
    The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
    But the LORD tests the hearts.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
    I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity. I said of laughter—“Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives. I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove. I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me. I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds. So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
    Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
    I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
    For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
    And this was my reward from all my labor.
    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
    And on the labor in which I had toiled;
    And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
    There was no profit under the sun.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:17
    Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:24
    Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:26
    For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
     
  • Isaiah 53:3-8
    He is despised and rejected by men,
    A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
    And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
    He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
    Surely He has borne our griefs
    And carried our sorrows;
    Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
    Smitten by God, and afflicted.
    But He was wounded for our transgressions,
    He was bruised for our iniquities;
    The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
    And by His stripes we are healed.
    All we like sheep have gone astray;
    We have turned, every one, to his own way;
    And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
    He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
    Yet He opened not His mouth;
    He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
    And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    So He opened not His mouth.
    He was taken from prison and from judgment,
    And who will declare His generation?
    For He was cut off from the land of the living;
    For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

     
  • Matthew 12:31
    “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
     
  • Luke 12:48
    But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
     
  • John 5:19
    Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
     
  • John 5:30
    I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
     
  • John 18:10-11
    Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?”
     
  • Romans 1:18-20
    For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
     
  • Romans 2:11-15
    For there is no partiality with God. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
     
  • Romans 6:1-4
    What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
     
  • Romans 6:6-7
    knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.
     
  • Romans 6:16-18
    Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 13:12
    For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 2:6
    This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man,
     
  • Ephesians 1:4
    just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
     
  • Ephesians 1:8-12
    which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
     
  • Titus 1:2
    in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,
     
  • Hebrews 3:12
    Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
     
  • Hebrews 3:18-19
    And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
     
  • Hebrews 5:8-9
    though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
     
  • Hebrews 6:5-6
    and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
     
  • Hebrews 6:17-18
    Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
     
  • Hebrews 12:5-11
    And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
    “ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
    Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
    For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
    And scourges every son whom He receives.' If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
     
  • 1 Peter 1:4-7
    to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
     
  • 1 Peter 4:12-13
    Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.
     
  • 1 John 1:8-10
    If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
     
  • 1 John 4:8
    He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.