Psalm 45:5
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5 Your arrows are sharp
in the heart of the king’s enemies;
the peoples fall under you.
Psalm 21:12
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12 For you will put them to flight;
you will aim at their faces with your bows.(A)
Psalm 38:2
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2 For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has come down on me.(A)
Numbers 24:8
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8 God, who brings him out of Egypt,
is like the horns of a wild ox for him;
he shall devour the nations that are his foes
and break their bones.
He shall strike with his arrows.[a](A)
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- 24.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 22:27
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27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before him.[a](A)
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- 22.27 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb you
Zechariah 9:13-14
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13 For I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.[a]
I will arouse your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior’s sword.(A)
14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
and his arrow go forth like lightning;
the Lord God will sound the trumpet
and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.(B)
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- 9.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Romans 15:18-19
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18 For I will not be so bold as to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the gentiles, by word and deed, 19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit,[a] so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.(A)
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- 15.19 Other ancient authorities read the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit
Acts 6:7
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7 The word of God continued to spread; the number of the disciples increased greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.(A)
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Acts 4:4
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4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and they numbered about five thousand.(A)
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Luke 19:42-44
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42 saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 Indeed, the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you and hem you in on every side.(A) 44 They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”[a](B)
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- 19.44 Gk lacks from God
Psalm 66:3-4
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3 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
Because of your great power, your enemies cringe before you.(A)
4 All the earth worships you;
they sing praises to you,
sing praises to your name.” Selah(B)
Acts 7:54
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The Stoning of Stephen
54 When they heard these things, they became enraged and ground their teeth at Stephen.[a]
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- 7.54 Gk him
Acts 5:33
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33 When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.(A)
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Acts 5:14
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14 Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women,
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Acts 2:41
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41 So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.
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Acts 2:37
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The First Converts
37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, “Brothers,[a] what should we do?”(A)
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- 2.37 Gk Men, brothers
Luke 20:18-19
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18 “Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”(A) 19 When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.(B)
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Psalm 2:1-9
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Psalm 2
God’s Promise to His Anointed
1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?(A)
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(B)
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord has them in derision.(C)
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath
and terrify them in his fury, saying,(D)
6 “I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”(E)
7 I will tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to me, “You are my son;
today I have begotten you.(F)
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage
and the ends of the earth your possession.(G)
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”(H)
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