Jeremiah 20:9
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9 If I say, “I will not mention him
or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.(A)
Psalm 39:3
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3 my heart became hot within me.
While 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.(A)
19 My belly is indeed like wine that has no vent;
like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.(B)
20 I must speak, so that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
Acts 4:20
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20 for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.”(A)
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Ezekiel 3:14
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14 The spirit lifted me up and bore me away; I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:16-17
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16 If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a wage, but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission.(A)
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Acts 17:16
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Paul in Athens
16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols.(A)
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2 Corinthians 5:13-15
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13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.(A) 14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.(B) 15 And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the one who for their sake died and was raised.
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Jeremiah 6:11
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11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
I am weary of holding it in.
Pour it out on the children in the street
and on the gatherings of young men as well;
both husband and wife shall be taken,
the elderly and those full of days.(A)
Luke 9:62
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62 And Jesus said to him, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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John 1:2-3
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2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being(A)
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John 4:2-3
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2 (although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized), 3 he left Judea and started back to Galilee.
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Acts 18:5
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5 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with proclaiming the word,[a] testifying to the Jews that the Messiah[b] was Jesus.(A)
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1 Kings 19:3-4
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3 Then he was afraid;[a] he got up and fled for his life and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”(A)
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- 19.3 Gk: Heb he saw
Acts 15:37-38
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37 Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark.(A) 38 But Paul decided not to take with them one who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.(B)
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