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| Publication date: | 09/11/2012 |
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A Treasury of Biblical Quotations
By Lester V. Berrey
Dover Publications, Inc.
Copyright © 1976 Lester V. BerreyAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-486-16833-3
CHAPTER 1
A Treasury of Biblical Quotations
A
Abasement, see HUMILITY
ABILITY; see also STRENGTH, TALENT
If so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out.
—Jos. 14:12
If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ... nothing shall be impossible unto you.
—MATT. 17:20
With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
—MATT. 19:26
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
—MATT. 26:41
All things are possible to him that believeth.
—MARK 9:23
She hath done what she could.
—MARK 14:8
Many ... will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
—LUKE 13:24
To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
—ROM. 7:18
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
—1 CoR. 3:2
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.
—1 COR. 10:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
—PHIL. 4:13
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me.
—1 TIM. 1:12
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another.
—1 PET. 4:10
If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth.
—PET. 4:11
ABSENCE
The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
—GEN. 31:49
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
—1 COR. 5:3
Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
—2 COR. 5:6
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
—2 COR. 5:9
As ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
—PHIL. 2:12
Absolution, see REMISSION, FORGIVENESS
ABSTINENCE; see also TEMPERANCE, RENUNCIATION, INTOXICATION
Drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.
—JUDG. 13:4
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
—PROV. 20:1
Be not among winebibbers.
—PROV. 23 :20
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
—PROV. 23:31, 32
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth.
—ROM. 14:21
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.
—EPH. 5:18
Touch not; taste not; handle not.
—COL. 2:21
Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
—1 PET. 2:11
Abuse, see HARM, MALICE, OPPRESSION, PERSECUTION
ACCOMPLISHMENT
God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
—GEN. 1: 31
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
—PROV. 13:19
The Lord will do great things.
—JOEL 2:21
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
—LUKE 14:28
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
—JOHN 4:34
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
—JOHN 17:4
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
—2 COR. 8:11
I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
—PHIL. 2:16
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
—2 TIM. 4:7
Let us go on unto perfection.
—HEB. 6:1
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
—JAS. 5:16
Accord, see HARMONY
Accountability, see RESPONSIBILITY
ACCUSATION; see also JUDGMENT, CENSURE
Thou shalt not raise a false report : put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
—Ex. 23:1
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
—MATT. 5:11
Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely.
—LUKE 3:14
Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
—JOHN 8:10
Acquittal, see FORGIVENESS, REMISSION
Action, see INDUSTRY, WORKS
Admonition, see COUNSEL, REPROOF
Adoration, see REVERENCE, WORSHIP, PRAISE
Adulation, see FLATTERY, PRAISE
ADULTERY
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
—Ex. 20:14
Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
—LEV. 18:20
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
—JOB 31:1
The lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
—PROV. 5:3—5
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
—PROV. 6:27—29
Whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
—PROV. 6:32
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
—PROV. 22:14
A whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
—PROV. 23 : 27
He that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
—PROV. 29:3
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
—POV. 30:18, 19
Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
—PROV. 31:3
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
—MATT. 5:28
Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications.
—MATT. 15:19
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness.
—ROM. 13:13
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
—1 COR. 6:18
The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness.
—GAL. 5:19
Fornication, and all uncleanness, let it not be once named among you.
—EPH. 5:3
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence.
—COL. 3:5
Whoremongers, and adulterers, God will judge.
—HEB. 13:4
Adversity, see AFFLICTION, TROUBLE
Advice, see COUNSEL, INSTRUCTION
Affection, see LOVE
AFFLICTION; see also SORROW, SUFFERING, TROUBLE, CHASTENING
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple.
—2 SAM. 22:7
The afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
—2 SAM. 22:28
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend.
—JOB. 6:14
If they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
—JOB 36:8-10
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
—JOB 36:15
Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress.
—PSA. 4:1
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
—PSA. 23 :4
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
—PSA. 34:19
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
—PSA. 55:22
The Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
—PSA. 69:33
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
—PSA. 73:26
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
—PSA. 103:13, 14
Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
—PSA. 107:17
This is my comfort in my affliction : for thy word hath quickened me.
—PSA. 119:50
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
—PSA. 119:67
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statues.
—PSA. 119:71
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
—PSA. 119:143
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
—PSA. 138:3
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
—PSA. 140:12
The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
—PSA. 145:14
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
—PROV. 15:15
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
—PROV. 18:14
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
—PROV. 24:10
Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat.
—ISA. 25:4
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
—ISA. 26:17
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
—ISA. 49:13
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphire.
—ISA. 54:11
Remembering mine afflictions and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
—LAM. 3:19, 20
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are consumed, because his compassions fail not.
—LAM. 3:22
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us: he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
—HOS. 6:1
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.... Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
—MATT. 5:4, 10-12
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
—MATT. 11:28
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
—MATT. 26:39
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
—JOHN 16:33
We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
—ACTS 14:22
We glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience: And patience, experience; and experience, hope.
—ROM. 5:3, 4
We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
—ROM. 8:28
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution?
—ROM. 8:35
Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
—2 COR. 4:16, 17
I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
—2 COR. 12:10
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
—GAL. 6:2
Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.
—PHIL. 1:29
Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
—2 TIM. 2:3
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.
—2 TIM. 2:12
Watch thou in all things, endure afflictions.
—2 TIM. 4:5
The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
—HEB. 13:6
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
—JAS. 1:27
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
—JAS. 5:10, 11
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.
—JAS. 5:13
What glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
—1 PET. 2:20
Resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
—1 PET. 5:9
AGE
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man.
—LEV. 19:32
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
—JOB. 12:2
Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
—JOB 32:7
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
—PSA. 21:44
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken.
—PSA. 37:25
Mine age is as nothing before thee.
—PSA. 39:5
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
—PSA. 90:9
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
—PSA. 90:12
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days.
—RROV. 10: 27
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
—PROV. 16:31
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say that an untimely birth is better than he.
—ECCL. 6:3
We all do fade as a leaf.
—ISA. 64:6
No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new.
—LUKE 5:39
Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.
—2 COR. 5:17
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father.
—1 TIM. 5:1
Aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
—TIT. 2:2
Agreement, see HARMONY
Aid, see HELP, SERVICE, GIVING
Ailment, see AFFLICTION, INFIRMITY, HEALING
Alms, see GIVING
Altruism, see CHARITY, GIVING, KINDNESS, UNSELFISHNESS, HELP, SERVICE
AMBITION; see also ASPIRATION, PRIDE
Let us make us a name.
—GEN. 11:4
The Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
—PSA. 31: 23
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house.
—PROV. 15:27
Better is it to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
—PROV. 16:19
Labour not to be rich ... Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
—PROV. 23 :4,5
Better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
—PROV. 25:7
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
—ECCL. 1:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good?
—ECCL. 4:8
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Title Page,Copyright Page,
Dedication,
Preface,
The Books of the Bible,
Abbreviations,
A Treasury of Biblical Quotations,
Subject Index,