Isaiah 6:8
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Isaiah's Commission from the Lord
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for (A)us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
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Exodus 4:10-13
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10 But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but (A)I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and (B)I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” 13 But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”
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Acts 26:16-17
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16 But rise and (A)stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, (B)to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you, 17 (C)delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—(D)to whom I (E)am sending you
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Ephesians 3:8
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8 To me, (A)though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, (B)to preach to the Gentiles the (C)unsearchable (D)riches of Christ,
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Acts 22:21
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21 And he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you (A)far away to the Gentiles.’”
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Isaiah 65:1
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Judgment and Salvation
65 (A)I was ready to be sought by (B)those who did not ask for me;
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that was not called by[a] my name.
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- Isaiah 65:1 Or that did not call upon
Matthew 4:20-22
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20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
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Acts 28:25-28
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25 And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: (A)“The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
26 (B)“‘Go to this people, and say,
(C)“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
27 (D)For this people's heart has grown dull,
and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed;
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and (E)turn, and I would heal them.’
28 Therefore let it be known to you that (F)this (G)salvation of God (H)has been sent to the Gentiles; (I)they will listen.”[a]
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- Acts 28:28 Some manuscripts add verse 29: And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, having much dispute among themselves
Deuteronomy 4:33-36
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33 (A)Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? 34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, (B)by signs, by wonders, and (C)by war, (D)by a mighty hand and (E)an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 To you it was shown, (F)that you might know that the Lord is God; (G)there is no other besides him. 36 (H)Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and (I)you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
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Genesis 3:8-10
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8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool[a] of the day, and the man and his wife (A)hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”[b] 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, (B)because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
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- Genesis 3:8 Hebrew wind
- Genesis 3:9 In Hebrew you is singular in verses 9 and 11
Genesis 1:26
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26 Then God said, (A)“Let us make man[a] in our image, (B)after our likeness. And (C)let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
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- Genesis 1:26 The Hebrew word for man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam
Genesis 11:7
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7 Come, (A)let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.”
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Ezekiel 1:24
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24 And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings (A)like the sound of many waters, like (B)the sound of the (C)Almighty, a sound of tumult (D)like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they let down their wings.
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1 Kings 22:20
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20 and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.
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Ezekiel 10:5
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5 And (A)the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, (B)like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
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Genesis 3:22
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22 Then the Lord God said, (A)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand (B)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”
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Acts 9:4
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4 And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting (A)me?”
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