100 Bible Verses about Jealousness (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about jealousness, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Exodus 20:5 KJV

⁵Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

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Exodus 34:14 KJV

¹⁴For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

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1 Corinthians 3:3 KJV

³For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

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Proverbs 14:30 KJV

³⁰A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

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James 3:14-16 KJV

¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. ¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

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Song of Solomon 8:6 KJV

⁶Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

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2 Corinthians 11:2 KJV

²For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

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Proverbs 27:4 KJV

⁴Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

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1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV

⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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James 4:2-3 KJV

²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. ³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

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Acts 7:9 KJV

⁹And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

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Romans 13:13 KJV

¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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Proverbs 6:34 KJV

³⁴For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

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Deuteronomy 4:24 KJV

²⁴For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

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1 Samuel 18:8 KJV

⁸And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

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2 Corinthians 12:20 KJV

²⁰For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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Numbers 5:14 KJV

¹⁴And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

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Deuteronomy 6:15 KJV

¹⁵(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

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Deuteronomy 5:9 KJV

⁹Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

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1 Corinthians 10:22 KJV

²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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Genesis 37:11 KJV

¹¹And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

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Genesis 4:4-5 KJV

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James 4:5 KJV

⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

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Romans 1:29 KJV

²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

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1 Kings 14:22 KJV

²²And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

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1 Samuel 18:8-9 KJV

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Exodus 20:4-5 KJV

⁴Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

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Exodus 20:17 KJV

¹⁷Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

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James 4:2 KJV

²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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Colossians 4:6 KJV

⁶Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

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Psalm 79:5 KJV

⁵How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

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Joshua 24:19 KJV

¹⁹And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

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Genesis 4:4-8 KJV

⁴And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: ⁵But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. ⁶And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷If thou doest well, shalt thou not be …

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Hebrews 2:17 KJV

¹⁷Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

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Ephesians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

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John 13:35 KJV

³⁵By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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Titus 3:3 KJV

³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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Ephesians 5:5 KJV

⁵For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Romans 13:13-14 KJV

¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. ¹⁴But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶Jesus 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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Matthew 20:14-15 KJV

¹⁴Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. ¹⁵Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

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Malachi 3:6 KJV

⁶For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

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Isaiah 42:8 KJV

⁸I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

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Song of Solomon 8:6-7 KJV

⁶Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. ⁷Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

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Ecclesiastes 4:4 KJV

⁴Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV

¹⁶These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: ¹⁷A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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Psalm 78:58 KJV

⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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Psalm 73:3 KJV

³For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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Psalm 37:1 KJV

¹Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

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Job 5:2 KJV

²For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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1 Kings 19:10 KJV

¹⁰And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

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1 Samuel 18:7-9 KJV

⁷And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. ⁸And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? ⁹And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

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1 Samuel 1:6 KJV

⁶And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.

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Deuteronomy 32:16 KJV

¹⁶They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

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Genesis 37:4 KJV

⁴And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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Genesis 4:5-6 KJV

⁵But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. ⁶And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

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Genesis 4:4-7 KJV

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Hebrews 1:9 KJV

⁹Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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1 Corinthians 13:8 KJV

⁸Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-8 KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to …

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1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV

¹³There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Romans 10:19-21 KJV

¹⁹But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. ²⁰But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. ²¹But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

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Proverbs 25:1-10 KJV

¹These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. ²It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. ³The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable. ⁴Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. …

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Genesis 1:1 KJV

¹In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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Revelation 2:26-27 KJV

²⁶And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: ²⁷And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

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Hebrews 12:28-29 KJV

²⁸Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: ²⁹For our God is a consuming fire.

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2 Timothy 2:12 KJV

¹²If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

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1 Timothy 1:16 KJV

¹⁶Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

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Colossians 1:10-11 KJV

¹⁰That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; ¹¹Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

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Philippians 4:8 KJV

⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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Ephesians 6:14 KJV

¹⁴Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

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Ephesians 4:25 KJV

²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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Ephesians 2:10 KJV

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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Galatians 6:10 KJV

¹⁰As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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Galatians 1:6 KJV

⁶I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

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2 Corinthians 5:14-15 KJV

¹⁴For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: ¹⁵And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

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1 Corinthians 15:58 KJV

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

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1 Corinthians 10:22-23 KJV

²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? ²³All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

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1 Corinthians 4:2 KJV

²Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

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Romans 13:8 KJV

⁸Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

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Romans 11:22 KJV

²²Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

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Romans 2:7 KJV

⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

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Romans 1:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. ¹⁷For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

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Acts 10:37 KJV

³⁷That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

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Acts 3:14 KJV

¹⁴But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

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Acts 2:34-36 KJV

³⁴For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, ³⁵Until I make thy foes thy footstool. ³⁶Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

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John 17:17 KJV

¹⁷Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

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John 17:4 KJV

⁴I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

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John 10:34-35 KJV

³⁴Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? ³⁵If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

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John 6:28-29 KJV

²⁸Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? ²⁹Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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John 2:13-17 KJV

¹³And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: ¹⁵And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; ¹⁶And said unto …

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Luke 23:24 KJV

²⁴And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

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Luke 10:27 KJV

²⁷And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

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Luke 10:20 KJV

²⁰Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

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Matthew 28:18-20 KJV

¹⁸And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. ¹⁹Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: ²⁰Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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Matthew 22:36-40 KJV

³⁶Master, which is the great commandment in the law? ³⁷Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ⁴⁰On these two commandments hang …

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