Bible Cross References
O sword
Deuteronomy 32:41
that I will sharpen my flashing sword and see that justice is done. I will take revenge on my enemies and punish those who hate me.
Deuteronomy 32:42
My arrows will drip with their blood, and my sword will kill all who oppose me. I will spare no one who fights against me; even the wounded and prisoners will die.'
Isaiah 27:1
On that day the LORD will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster that lives in the sea.
Jeremiah 47:6
You cry out, 'Sword of the LORD! How long will you go on slashing? Go back to your scabbard, stay there and rest!'
Ezekiel 21:4
I will use my sword against everyone from south to north.
Ezekiel 21:5
Everyone will know that I, the LORD, have drawn my sword and that I will not put it away.
Ezekiel 21:9
"Mortal man, prophesy. Tell the people what I, the Lord, am saying: A sword, a sword is sharpened and polished.
Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened to kill, polished to flash like lightning. There can be no rejoicing, for my people have disregarded every warning and punishment.
Ezekiel 21:28
"Mortal man, prophesy. Announce what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to the Ammonites, who are insulting Israel. Say to them: 'A sword is ready to destroy; It is polished to kill, to flash like lightning.
my shepherd
Zechariah 11:4
The LORD my God said to me, "Act the part of the shepherd of a flock of sheep that are going to be butchered.
Zechariah 11:7
Those who bought and sold the sheep hired me, and I became the shepherd of the sheep that were going to be butchered. I took two sticks: one I called "Favor" and the other "Unity." And I took care of the flock.
Isaiah 40:11
He will take care of his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs together and carry them in his arms; he will gently lead their mothers.
Ezekiel 34:23
I will give them a king like my servant David to be their one shepherd, and he will take care of them.
Ezekiel 34:24
I, the LORD, will be their God, and a king like my servant David will be their ruler. I have spoken.
Ezekiel 37:24
A king like my servant David will be their king. They will all be united under one ruler and will obey my laws faithfully.
Micah 5:2
The LORD says, "Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in Judah, but out of you I will bring a ruler for Israel, whose family line goes back to ancient times."
Micah 5:4
When he comes, he will rule his people with the strength that comes from the LORD and with the majesty of the LORD God himself. His people will live in safety because people all over the earth will acknowledge his greatness,
John 10:10-18
10
The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life---life in all its fullness.
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"I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.
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When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
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The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.
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I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them.
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There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them, too; they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.
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"The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again.
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No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do."
Hebrews 13:20
God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
1 Peter 5:4
And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the glorious crown which will never lose its brightness.
the man
Isaiah 9:6
A child is born to us! A son is given to us! And he will be our ruler. He will be called, "Wonderful Counselor," "Mighty God," "Eternal Father," "Prince of Peace."
Jeremiah 23:5
The LORD says, "The time is coming when I will choose as king a righteous descendant of David. That king will rule wisely and do what is right and just throughout the land.
Jeremiah 23:6
When he is king, the people of Judah will be safe, and the people of Israel will live in peace. He will be called 'The LORD Our Salvation.'
Hosea 12:3-5
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Their ancestor Jacob struggled with his twin brother Esau while the two of them were still in their mother's womb; when Jacob grew up, he fought against God---
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he fought against an angel and won. He wept and asked for a blessing. And at Bethel God came to our ancestor Jacob and spoke with him.
5
This was the LORD God Almighty---the LORD is the name by which he is to be worshiped.
Matthew 1:23
"A virgin will become pregnant and have a son, and he will be called Immanuel" (which means, "God is with us").
Matthew 11:27
"My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
John 1:1
In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2
From the very beginning the Word was with God.
John 5:17
Jesus answered them, "My Father is always working, and I too must work."
John 5:18
This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.
John 5:23
so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
John 8:58
"I am telling you the truth," Jesus replied. "Before Abraham was born, 'I Am'."
John 10:30
The Father and I are one."
John 10:38
But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father."
John 14:1
"Do not be worried and upset," Jesus told them. "Believe in God and believe also in me.
John 14:9-11
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Jesus answered, "For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, 'Show us the Father'?
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Do you not believe, Philip, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I have spoken to you," Jesus said to his disciples, "do not come from me. The Father, who remains in me, does his own work.
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Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If not, believe because of the things I do.
John 14:23-11
John 16:15
All that my Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit will take what I give him and tell it to you.
John 17:21-23
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I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
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I gave them the same glory you gave me, so that they may be one, just as you and I are one:
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I in them and you in me, so that they may be completely one, in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me.
Philippians 2:6
He always had the nature of God, but he did not think that by force he should try to remain equal with God.
Colossians 1:15-19
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Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible God. He is the first-born Son, superior to all created things.
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For through him God created everything in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen things, including spiritual powers, lords, rulers, and authorities. God created the whole universe through him and for him.
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Christ existed before all things, and in union with him all things have their proper place.
18
He is the head of his body, the church; he is the source of the body's life. He is the first-born Son, who was raised from death, in order that he alone might have the first place in all things.
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For it was by God's own decision that the Son has in himself the full nature of God.
Hebrews 1:6-12
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But when God was about to send his first-born Son into the world, he said, "All of God's angels must worship him."
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But about the angels God said, "God makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire."
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About the Son, however, God said: "Your kingdom, O God, will last forever and ever! You rule over your people with justice.
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You love what is right and hate what is wrong. That is why God, your God, has chosen you and has given you the joy of an honor far greater than he gave to your companions."
10
He also said, "You, Lord, in the beginning created the earth, and with your own hands you made the heavens.
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They will disappear, but you will remain; they will all wear out like clothes.
12
You will fold them up like a coat, and they will be changed like clothes. But you are always the same, and your life never ends."
Revelation 1:8
"I am the first and the last," says the Lord God Almighty, who is, who was, and who is to come.
Revelation 1:11
It said, "Write down what you see, and send the book to the churches in these seven cities: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."
Revelation 1:17
When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. He placed his right hand on me and said, "Don't be afraid! I am the first and the last.
Revelation 2:23
I will also kill her followers, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who knows everyone's thoughts and wishes. I will repay each of you according to what you have done.
Revelation 21:6
And he said, "It is done! I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end. To anyone who is thirsty I will give the right to drink from the spring of the water of life without paying for it.
Revelation 22:13-16
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I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
14
Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city.
15
But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.
16
"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to announce these things to you in the churches. I am descended from the family of David; I am the bright morning star."
smite
Isaiah 53:4-10
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"But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain that we should have borne. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God.
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But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received.
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All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the LORD made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved.
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"He was treated harshly, but endured it humbly; he never said a word. Like a lamb about to be slaughtered, like a sheep about to be sheared, he never said a word.
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He was arrested and sentenced and led off to die, and no one cared about his fate. He was put to death for the sins of our people.
9
He was placed in a grave with those who are evil, he was buried with the rich, even though he had never committed a crime or ever told a lie."
10
The LORD says, "It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness. And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life, and through him my purpose will succeed.
Daniel 9:24-26
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"Seven times seventy years is the length of time God has set for freeing your people and your holy city from sin and evil. Sin will be forgiven and eternal justice established, so that the vision and the prophecy will come true, and the holy Temple will be rededicated.
25
Note this and understand it: From the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until God's chosen leader comes, seven times seven years will pass. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, and will stand for seven times sixty-two years, but this will be a time of troubles.
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And at the end of that time God's chosen leader will be killed unjustly. The city and the Temple will be destroyed by the invading army of a powerful ruler. The end will come like a flood, bringing the war and destruction which God has prepared.
John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 3:14-17
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As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.
17
For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.
Acts 2:23
In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him.
Acts 4:26-28
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The kings of the earth prepared themselves, and the rulers met together against the Lord and his Messiah.'
27
For indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together in this city with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Jesus, your holy Servant, whom you made Messiah.
28
They gathered to do everything that you by your power and will had already decided would happen.
Romans 3:24-26
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But by the free gift of God's grace all are put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free.
25
God offered him, so that by his blood he should become the means by which people's sins are forgiven through their faith in him. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. In the past he was patient and overlooked people's sins; but in the present time he deals with their sins, in order to demonstrate his righteousness. In this way God shows that he himself is righteous and that he puts right everyone who believes in Jesus.
Romans 4:25
Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God.
Romans 5:6-10
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For when we were still helpless, Christ died for the wicked at the time that God chose.
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It is a difficult thing for someone to die for a righteous person. It may even be that someone might dare to die for a good person.
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But God has shown us how much he loves us---it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!
9
By his blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's anger!
10
We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!
Romans 8:32
Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son---will he not also freely give us all things?
2 Corinthians 5:21
Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.
Galatians 3:13
But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, "Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse."
Colossians 1:19
For it was by God's own decision that the Son has in himself the full nature of God.
Colossians 1:20
Through the Son, then, God decided to bring the whole universe back to himself. God made peace through his Son's blood on the cross and so brought back to himself all things, both on earth and in heaven.
Hebrews 10:5-10
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For this reason, when Christ was about to come into the world, he said to God: "You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.
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You are not pleased with animals burned whole on the altar or with sacrifices to take away sins.
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Then I said, 'Here I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.' "
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First he said, "You neither want nor are you pleased with sacrifices and offerings or with animals burned on the altar and the sacrifices to take away sins." He said this even though all these sacrifices are offered according to the Law.
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Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your will." So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place.
10
Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all.
1 Peter 1:18-20
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For you know what was paid to set you free from the worthless manner of life handed down by your ancestors. It was not something that can be destroyed, such as silver or gold;
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it was the costly sacrifice of Christ, who was like a lamb without defect or flaw.
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He had been chosen by God before the creation of the world and was revealed in these last days for your sake.
1 Peter 2:24
Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.
1 Peter 2:25
You were like sheep that had lost their way, but now you have been brought back to follow the Shepherd and Keeper of your souls.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death physically, but made alive spiritually,
1 John 2:2
And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.
1 John 4:9
And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.
1 John 4:10
This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
Revelation 13:8
All people living on earth will worship it, except those whose names were written before the creation of the world in the book of the living which belongs to the Lamb that was killed.
the sheep
Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus said to them, "This very night all of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, 'God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
Matthew 26:56
But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures." Then all the disciples left him and ran away.
Mark 14:27
Jesus said to them, "All of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, 'God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep will all be scattered.'
Mark 14:50
Then all the disciples left him and ran away.
John 16:32
The time is coming, and is already here, when all of you will be scattered, each of you to your own home, and I will be left all alone. But I am not really alone, because the Father is with me.
I will turn
Zechariah 11:7
Those who bought and sold the sheep hired me, and I became the shepherd of the sheep that were going to be butchered. I took two sticks: one I called "Favor" and the other "Unity." And I took care of the flock.
Zechariah 11:11
So the covenant was canceled on that day. Those who bought and sold the sheep were watching me, and they knew that the LORD was speaking through what I did.
Matthew 10:42
You can be sure that whoever gives even a drink of cold water to one of the least of these my followers because he is my follower, will certainly receive a reward."
Matthew 18:10
"See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 18:11
Matthew 18:14
In just the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost.
Luke 12:32
"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the Kingdom.
Luke 17:2
It would be better for him if a large millstone were tied around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
John 18:8
"I have already told you that I am he," Jesus said. "If, then, you are looking for me, let these others go."
John 18:9
(He said this so that what he had said might come true: "Father, I have not lost even one of those you gave me.")