Bible Cross References
seeing
Hebrews 11:2-38
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It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval.
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It is by faith that we understand that the universe was created by God's word, so that what can be seen was made out of what cannot be seen.
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It was faith that made Abel offer to God a better sacrifice than Cain's. Through his faith he won God's approval as a righteous man, because God himself approved of his gifts. By means of his faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.
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It was faith that kept Enoch from dying. Instead, he was taken up to God, and nobody could find him, because God had taken him up. The scripture says that before Enoch was taken up, he had pleased God.
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No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him.
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It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.
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It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going.
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By faith he lived as a foreigner in the country that God had promised him. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who received the same promise from God.
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For Abraham was waiting for the city which God has designed and built, the city with permanent foundations.
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It was faith that made Abraham able to become a father, even though he was too old and Sarah herself could not have children. He trusted God to keep his promise.
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Though Abraham was practically dead, from this one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, as many as the numberless grains of sand on the seashore.
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It was in faith that all these persons died. They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth.
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Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.
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They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return.
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Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
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It was faith that made Abraham offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice when God put Abraham to the test. Abraham was the one to whom God had made the promise, yet he was ready to offer his only son as a sacrifice.
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God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised."
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Abraham reckoned that God was able to raise Isaac from death---and, so to speak, Abraham did receive Isaac back from death.
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It was faith that made Isaac promise blessings for the future to Jacob and Esau.
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It was faith that made Jacob bless each of the sons of Joseph just before he died. He leaned on the top of his walking stick and worshiped God.
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It was faith that made Joseph, when he was about to die, speak of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, and leave instructions about what should be done with his body.
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It was faith that made the parents of Moses hide him for three months after he was born. They saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid to disobey the king's order.
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It was faith that made Moses, when he had grown up, refuse to be called the son of the king's daughter.
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He preferred to suffer with God's people rather than to enjoy sin for a little while.
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He reckoned that to suffer scorn for the Messiah was worth far more than all the treasures of Egypt, for he kept his eyes on the future reward.
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It was faith that made Moses leave Egypt without being afraid of the king's anger. As though he saw the invisible God, he refused to turn back.
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It was faith that made him establish the Passover and order the blood to be sprinkled on the doors, so that the Angel of Death would not kill the first-born sons of the Israelites.
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It was faith that made the Israelites able to cross the Red Sea as if on dry land; when the Egyptians tried to do it, the water swallowed them up.
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It was faith that made the walls of Jericho fall down after the Israelites had marched around them for seven days.
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It was faith that kept the prostitute Rahab from being killed with those who disobeyed God, for she gave the Israelite spies a friendly welcome.
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Should I go on? There isn't enough time for me to speak of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets.
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Through faith they fought whole countries and won. They did what was right and received what God had promised. They shut the mouths of lions,
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put out fierce fires, escaped being killed by the sword. They were weak, but became strong; they were mighty in battle and defeated the armies of foreigners.
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Through faith women received their dead relatives raised back to life. Others, refusing to accept freedom, died under torture in order to be raised to a better life.
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Some were mocked and whipped, and others were put in chains and taken off to prison.
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They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were killed by the sword. They went around clothed in skins of sheep or goats---poor, persecuted, and mistreated.
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The world was not good enough for them! They wandered like refugees in the deserts and hills, living in caves and holes in the ground.
a cloud
Isaiah 60:8
What are these ships that skim along like clouds, Like doves returning home?
Ezekiel 38:9
He and his army and the many nations with him will attack like a storm and cover the land like a cloud."
Ezekiel 38:16
You will attack my people Israel like a storm moving across the land. When the time comes, I will send you to invade my land in order to show the nations who I am, to show my holiness by what I do through you.
witnesses
Luke 16:28
where I have five brothers. Let him go and warn them so that they, at least, will not come to this place of pain.'
John 3:32
He tells what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his message.
John 4:39
Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, "He told me everything I have ever done."
John 4:44
For he himself had said, "Prophets are not respected in their own country."
1 Peter 5:12
I write you this brief letter with the help of Silas, whom I regard as a faithful Christian. I want to encourage you and give my testimony that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.
Revelation 22:16
"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."
let us lay
Matthew 10:37
"Those who love their father or mother more than me are not fit to be my disciples; those who love their son or daughter more than me are not fit to be my disciples.
Matthew 10:38
Those who do not take up their cross and follow in my steps are not fit to be my disciples.
Luke 8:14
The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear; but the worries and riches and pleasures of this life crowd in and choke them, and their fruit never ripens.
Luke 9:59-62
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He said to another man, "Follow me." But that man said, "Sir, first let me go back and bury my father."
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Jesus answered, "Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and proclaim the Kingdom of God."
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Someone else said, "I will follow you, sir; but first let me go and say good-bye to my family."
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Jesus said to him, "Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God."
Luke 12:15
And he went on to say to them all, "Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be."
Luke 14:26-33
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"Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.
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Those who do not carry their own cross and come after me cannot be my disciples.
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If one of you is planning to build a tower, you sit down first and figure out what it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job.
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If you don't, you will not be able to finish the tower after laying the foundation; and all who see what happened will make fun of you.
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'You began to build but can't finish the job!' they will say.
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If a king goes out with ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to face that other king.
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If he isn't, he will send messengers to meet the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still a long way off.
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In the same way," concluded Jesus, "none of you can be my disciple unless you give up everything you have.
Luke 18:22-25
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When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is still one more thing you need to do. Sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me."
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But when the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was very rich.
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Jesus saw that he was sad and said, "How hard it is for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!
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It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."
Luke 21:34
"Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch you
Romans 13:11-14
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You must do this, because you know that the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep. For the moment when we will be saved is closer now than it was when we first believed.
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The night is nearly over, day is almost here. Let us stop doing the things that belong to the dark, and let us take up weapons for fighting in the light.
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Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day---no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy.
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But take up the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.
2 Corinthians 7:1
All these promises are made to us, my dear friends. So then, let us purify ourselves from everything that makes body or soul unclean, and let us be completely holy by living in awe of God.
Ephesians 4:22-24
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So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to---the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.
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Your hearts and minds must be made completely new,
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and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.
Colossians 3:5-8
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You must put to death, then, the earthly desires at work in you, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed (for greed is a form of idolatry).
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Because of such things God's anger will come upon those who do not obey him.
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At one time you yourselves used to live according to such desires, when your life was dominated by them.
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But now you must get rid of all these things: anger, passion, and hateful feelings. No insults or obscene talk must ever come from your lips.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.
2 Timothy 2:4
A soldier on active duty wants to please his commanding officer and so does not get mixed up in the affairs of civilian life.
1 Peter 2:1
Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.
1 Peter 4:2
From now on, then, you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or anything that belongs to the world. If you love the world, you do not love the Father.
1 John 2:16
Everything that belongs to the world---what the sinful self desires, what people see and want, and everything in this world that people are so proud of---none of this comes from the Father; it all comes from the world.
and the sin
Hebrews 10:35-39
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Do not lose your courage, then, because it brings with it a great reward.
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You need to be patient, in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.
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For, as the scripture says, "Just a little while longer, and he who is coming will come; he will not delay.
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My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them."
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We are not people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith and are saved.
Psalm 18:23
He knows that I am faultless, that I have kept myself from doing wrong.
and let us
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
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Surely you know that many runners take part in a race, but only one of them wins the prize. Run, then, in such a way as to win the prize.
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Every athlete in training submits to strict discipline, in order to be crowned with a wreath that will not last; but we do it for one that will last forever.
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That is why I run straight for the finish line; that is why I am like a boxer who does not waste his punches.
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I harden my body with blows and bring it under complete control, to keep myself from being disqualified after having called others to the contest.
Galatians 5:7
You were doing so well! Who made you stop obeying the truth? How did he persuade you?
Philippians 2:16
as you offer them the message of life. If you do so, I shall have reason to be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because it will show that all my effort and work have not been wasted.
Philippians 3:10-14
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All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death,
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in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to life.
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I do not claim that I have already succeeded or have already become perfect. I keep striving to win the prize for which Christ Jesus has already won me to himself.
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Of course, my friends, I really do not think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead.
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So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have done my best in the race, I have run the full distance, and I have kept the faith.
with patience
Hebrews 6:15
Abraham was patient, and so he received what God had promised.
Hebrews 10:36
You need to be patient, in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.
Matthew 10:22
Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:13
But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
Luke 8:15
The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit.
Romans 2:7
Some people keep on doing good, and seek glory, honor, and immortal life; to them God will give eternal life.
Romans 5:3-5
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We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance,
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endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.
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This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.
Romans 8:24
For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of us hopes for something we see?
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 12:12
Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times.
James 1:3
for you know that when your faith succeeds in facing such trials, the result is the ability to endure.
James 5:7-11
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Be patient, then, my friends, until the Lord comes. See how patient farmers are as they wait for their land to produce precious crops. They wait patiently for the autumn and spring rains.
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You also must be patient. Keep your hopes high, for the day of the Lord's coming is near.
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Do not complain against one another, my friends, so that God will not judge you. The Judge is near, ready to appear.
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My friends, remember the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Take them as examples of patient endurance under suffering.
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We call them happy because they endured. You have heard of Job's patience, and you know how the Lord provided for him in the end. For the Lord is full of mercy and compassion.
2 Peter 1:6
to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness;
Revelation 1:9
I am John, your brother, and as a follower of Jesus I am your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom. I was put on the island of Patmos because I had proclaimed God's word and the truth that Jesus revealed.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you safe from the time of trouble which is coming upon the world to test all the people on earth.
Revelation 13:10
Whoever is meant to be captured will surely be captured; whoever is meant to be killed by the sword will surely be killed by the sword. This calls for endurance and faith on the part of God's people."