Isaiah 49:4
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4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my cause is with the Lord
and my reward with my God.”(A)
Isaiah 35:4
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4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Here is your God.
He will come with vengeance,
with terrible recompense.
He will come and save you.”(A)
Galatians 4:11
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11 I am afraid that my work for you may have been wasted.
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2 Corinthians 12:15
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15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?(A)
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2 Corinthians 2:15
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15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:(A)
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Matthew 23:37
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The Lament over Jerusalem
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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Matthew 17:17
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17 Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”
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Ezekiel 3:19
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19 But if you warn the wicked and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their wicked way, they shall die for their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.(A)
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Isaiah 65:23
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23 They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,[a]
for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord—
and their descendants as well.(A)
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- 65.23 Or sudden terror
Isaiah 62:11
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11 The Lord has proclaimed
to the end of the earth:
Say to daughter Zion,
“Look, your savior comes;
his reward is with him
and his recompense before him.”(A)
Isaiah 53:10-12
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10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction.
When you make his life an offering for sin,[a]
he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.(A)
11 Out of his anguish he shall see;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one,[b] my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.(B)
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out himself to death
and was numbered with the transgressors,
yet he bore the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.(C)
Isaiah 40:10
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10 See, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
his reward is with him
and his recompense before him.(A)
Hebrews 12:2
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2 looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of[a] the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.(A)
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- 12.2 Or who instead of
Philippians 2:9-10
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9 Therefore God exalted him even more highly
and gave him the name
that is above every other name,(A)
10 so that at the name given to Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,(B)
Romans 10:21
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21 But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”(A)
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John 17:4-5
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4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.(A) 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.(B)
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John 1:11
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11 He came to what was his own,[a] and his own people did not accept him.
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- 1.11 Or to his own home
Luke 24:26
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26 Was it not necessary that the Messiah[a] should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?”(A)
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- 24.26 Or the Christ
Isaiah 65:2
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2 I held out my hands all day long
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;(A)
Psalm 22:22-31
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22 I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;[a]
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:(A)
23 You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;
stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!(B)
24 For he did not despise or abhor
the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me[b]
but heard when I[c] cried to him.(C)
25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay before those who fear him.(D)
26 The poor[d] shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!(E)
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before him.[e](F)
28 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.(G)
29 To him,[f] indeed, shall all who sleep in[g] the earth bow down;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
and I shall live for him.[h](H)
30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord(I)
31 and[i] proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
saying that he has done it.(J)
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- 22.22 Or kindred
- 22.24 Heb him
- 22.24 Heb he
- 22.26 Or afflicted
- 22.27 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb you
- 22.29 Cn: Heb They have eaten and
- 22.29 Cn: Heb all the fat ones
- 22.29 Compare Gk Syr Vg: Heb and he who cannot keep himself alive
- 22.31 Compare Gk: Heb it will be told about the Lord to the generation,
they will come and
Leviticus 26:20
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20 Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.(A)
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