Jeremiah 20:9
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9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name.”
But His word was in my heart like a (A)burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And (B)I could not.
Psalm 39:3
New King James Version
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was [a]musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:
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- Psalm 39:3 meditating
Job 32:18-20
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18 For I am full of words;
The spirit within me compels me.
19 Indeed my [a]belly is like wine that has no [b]vent;
It is ready to burst like new wineskins.
20 I will speak, that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
Acts 4:20
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20 (A)For we cannot but speak the things which (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, I have nothing to boast of, for (A)necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this willingly, (B)I have a reward; but if against my will, (C)I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
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Acts 17:16
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The Philosophers at Athens
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, (A)his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was [a]given over to idols.
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- Acts 17:16 full of idols
Ezekiel 3:14
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14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the [a]heat of my spirit; but (A)the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
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- Ezekiel 3:14 Or anger
2 Corinthians 5:13-15
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13 For (A)if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that (B)if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, (C)that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
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Jeremiah 6:11
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11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord.
(A)I am weary of holding it in.
“I will pour it out (B)on the children outside,
And on the assembly of young men together;
For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,
The aged with him who is full of days.
Luke 9:62
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62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is (A)fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Acts 18:5
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5 (A)When Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was (B)compelled [a]by the Spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
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- Acts 18:5 Or in his spirit or in the Spirit
John 4:2-3
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2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
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John 1:2-3
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2 (A)He was in the beginning with God. 3 (B)All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
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1 Kings 19:3-4
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3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to 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 [a]broom tree. And he (A)prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
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- 1 Kings 19:4 juniper
Acts 15:37-38
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37 Now Barnabas [a]was determined to take with them (A)John called Mark. 38 But Paul insisted that they should not take with them (B)the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.
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- Acts 15:37 resolved
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