Job 8:7
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7 Though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.(A)
Job 42:12-13
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12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.(A) 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.(B)
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Matthew 13:31-32
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The Parable of the Mustard Seed
31 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field;(A) 32 it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”(B)
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Zechariah 4:10
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10 For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel.
“These seven are the eyes of the Lord that range through the whole earth.”(A)
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Proverbs 19:20
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20 Listen to advice and accept instruction,
that you may gain wisdom for the future.(A)
Proverbs 4:18
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18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.(A)
Zechariah 14:7
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7 And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the Lord), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light.(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:16
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16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.(A)
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Matthew 13:12
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12 For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance, but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.(A)
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2 Peter 2:20
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20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the[a] Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.(A)
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