Isaiah 6:8
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8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!”(A)
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Exodus 4:10-13
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10 But Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”(A) 11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?(B) 12 Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.”(C) 13 But he said, “O my Lord, please send someone else.”
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Acts 26:16-17
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16 But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me[a] and to those in which I will appear to you.(A) 17 I will rescue you from your people and from the gentiles—to whom I am sending you(B)
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- 26.16 Other ancient authorities read the things that you have seen
Ephesians 3:8
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8 Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ(A)
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Acts 22:21
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21 Then he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the gentiles.’ ”(A)
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Isaiah 65:1
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The Righteousness of God’s Judgment
65 I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that did not call on my name.(A)
Matthew 4:20-22
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20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him.(A) 21 As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
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Acts 20:24
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24 But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.(A)
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Acts 28:25-28
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25 So they disagreed with each other, and as they were leaving Paul made one further statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah,
26 ‘Go to this people and say,
You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.
27 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might look with their eyes
and listen with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.’
28 “Let it be known to you, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles; they will listen.”[a]
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- 28.28 Other ancient authorities add 28.29, And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, arguing vigorously among themselves
Deuteronomy 4:33-36
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33 Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?(A) 34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?(B) 35 To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.(C) 36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.(D)
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Genesis 3:8-10
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8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.(A) 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”(B)
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Genesis 1:26
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26 Then God said, “Let us make humans[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth[b] and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”(A)
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Genesis 11:7
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7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”(A)
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Ezekiel 1:24
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24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of mighty waters, like the thunder of the Almighty,[a] a sound of tumult like the sound of an army; when they stopped, they let down their wings.(A)
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- 1.24 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
1 Kings 22:20
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20 And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, so that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ Then one said one thing, and another said another,
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Ezekiel 10:5
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5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty[a] when he speaks.(A)
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- 10.5 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
Genesis 3:22
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22 Then the Lord God said, “See, the humans have become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now they might reach out their hands and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever”(A)—
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Acts 9:4
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4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”(A)
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