Hosea 11:4
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4 I led them with cords of human kindness,
with bands of love.
I was to them like those
who lift infants to their cheeks.[a]
I bent down to them and fed them.(A)
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- 11.4 Or who ease the yoke on their jaws
John 12:32
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32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people[a] to myself.”(A)
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- 12.32 Other ancient authorities read all things
Leviticus 26:13
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13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
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2 Corinthians 5:14
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14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.(A)
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Hosea 2:8
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8 She did not know
that it was I who gave her
the grain, the wine, and the oil
and who lavished upon her silver
and gold that they used for Baal.(A)
Jeremiah 31:2-3
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2 Thus says the Lord:
The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness;
when Israel sought for rest,(A)
3 the Lord appeared to him[a] from far away.[b]
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.(B)
Isaiah 63:9
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9 in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
but his presence that saved them;
in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.(A)
Psalm 105:40
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40 They asked, and he brought quails
and gave them food from heaven in abundance.(A)
Psalm 78:23-25
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23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(A)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(B)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
2 Samuel 7:14
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14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.(A)
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John 6:32-58
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32 Then Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which[a] comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”(A) 34 They said to him, “Sir,[b] give us this bread always.”(B)
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.(C) 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.(D) 37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away,(E) 38 for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.(F) 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me but raise it up on the last day.(G) 40 This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”(H)
41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”(I) 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last day.(J) 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.(K) 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.(L) 47 Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life.(M) 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”(N)
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”(O) 53 So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.(P) 54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day,(Q) 55 for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.(R) 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which the ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
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Exodus 16:32
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32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations in order that they may see the food with which I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
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