Jeremiah 20:9
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9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
(A)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and (B)I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
Psalm 39:3
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3 My (A)heart became hot within me.
As I mused, the fire burned;
then I spoke with my tongue:
Job 32:18-20
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18 For I am full of words;
the spirit within me constrains me.
19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new (A)wineskins ready to burst.
20 (B)I must speak, that I may find (C)relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
Acts 4:20
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20 for (A)we cannot but speak of what (B)we have seen and heard.”
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1 Corinthians 9:16-17
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16 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For (A)necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with (B)a stewardship.
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Acts 17:16
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Paul in Athens
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was (A)provoked within him as he saw that the city was (B)full of idols.
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Ezekiel 3:14
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14 (A)The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the (B)hand of the Lord being strong upon me.
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2 Corinthians 5:13-15
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13 For if we (A)are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ (B)controls us, because we have concluded this: that (C)one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, (D)that those who live might no longer live for themselves but (E)for him who for their sake died and was raised.
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Jeremiah 6:11
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11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
(A)I am weary of holding it in.
(B)“Pour it out upon the children in the street,
and upon the gatherings of young men, also;
(C)both husband and wife (D)shall be taken,
the elderly and the very aged.
Luke 9:62
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62 Jesus said to him, (A)“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Acts 18:5
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5 (A)When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul (B)was occupied with the word, (C)testifying to the Jews that the Christ was (D)Jesus.
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John 4:2-3
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2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed (A)again for Galilee.
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John 1:2-3
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2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 (A)All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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1 Kings 19:3-4
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3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to (A)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. (B)And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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Acts 15:37-38
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37 Now Barnabas wanted to take with them (A)John called Mark. 38 But Paul thought best not to take with them one (B)who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
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