PAUL'S EARLIEST TEACHING

          ‘I charge you, by the Lord, that this epistle be
          read unto all the holy brethren,’–1 THESS. v. 27.
If the books of the New Testament were arranged according to the dates
of their composition, this epistle would stand first. It was written
somewhere about twenty years after the Crucifixion, and long before any
of the existing Gospels. It is, therefore, of peculiar interest, as
being the most venerable extant Christian document, and as being a
witness to Christian truth quite independent of the Gospel narratives.
The little community at Thessalonica had been gathered together as the
result of a very brief period of ministration by Paul. He had spoken for
three successive Sabbaths in the synagogue, and had drawn together a
Christian society, mostly consisting of heathens, though with a
sprinkling of Jews amongst them. Driven from the city by a riot, he had
left it for Athens, with many anxious thoughts, of course, as to whether
the infant community would be able to stand alone after so few weeks of
his presence and instruction. Therefore he sent back one of his
travelling companions, Timothy by name, to watch over the young plant
for a little while. When Timothy returned with the intelligence of their
steadfastness, it was good news indeed, and with a sense of relieved
anxiety, he sits down to write this letter, which, all through, throbs
with thankfulness, and reveals the strain which the news had taken off
his spirit.
There are no such definite doctrinal statements in it as in the most of
Paul’s longer letters; it is simply an outburst of confidence and love
and tenderness, and a series of practical instructions. It has been
called the least doctrinal of the Pauline Epistles. And in one sense,
and under certain limitations, that is perfectly true. But the very fact
that it is so makes its indications and hints and allusions the more
significant; and if this letter, not written for the purpose of
enforcing any special doctrinal truth, be so saturated as it is with the
facts and principles of the Gospel, the stronger is the attestation
which it gives to the importance of these. I have, therefore, thought it
might be worth our while now, and might, perhaps, set threadbare truth
in something of a new light, if we put this–the most ancient Christian
writing extant, which is quite independent of the four Gospels–into the
witness-box, and see what it has to say about the great truths and
principles which we call the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is my simple
design, and I gather the phenomena into three or four divisions for the
sake of accuracy and order.
I. First of all, then, let us hear its witness to the divine Christ.
Look how the letter begins. ‘Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the
church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father, and in the Lord
Jesus Christ.’ What is the meaning of that collocation, putting these
two names side by side, unless it means that the Lord Jesus Christ sits
on the Father’s throne, and is divine?
Then there is another fact that I would have you notice, and that is
that more than twenty times in this short letter that great name is
applied to Jesus, ‘the Lord.’ Now mark that that is something more than
a mere title of human authority. It is in reality the New Testament
equivalent of the Old Testament Jehovah, and is the transference to Him
of that incommunicable name.
And then there is another fact which I would have you weigh, viz., that
in this letter direct prayer is offered to our Lord Himself. In one
place we read the petition, ‘May our God and Father Himself and our Lord
Jesus direct our way unto you,’ where the petition is presented to both,
and where both are supposed to be operative in the answer. And more than
that, the word ‘direct,’ following upon this _plural_ subject, is itself
a _singular_ verb. Could language more completely express than that
grammatical solecism does, the deep truth of the true and proper
divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? There is nothing in any
part of Scripture more emphatic and more lofty in its unfaltering
proclamation of that fundamental truth of the Gospel than this
altogether undoctrinal Epistle.
The Apostle does not conceive himself to be telling these men, though
they were such raw and recent Christians, anything new when he
presupposes the truth that to Him desires and prayers may go. Thus the
very loftiest apex of revealed religion had been imparted to that
handful of heathens in the few weeks of the Apostle’s stay amongst them.
And nowhere upon the inspired pages of the fourth Evangelist, nor in
that great Epistle to the Colossians, which is the very citadel and
central fort of that doctrine in Scripture, is there more emphatically
stated this truth than here, in these incidental allusions.
This witness, at any rate, declares, apart altogether from any other
part of Scripture, that so early in the development of the Church’s
history, and to people so recently dragged from idolatry, and having
received but such necessarily partial instruction in revealed truth,
this had not been omitted, that the Christ in whom they trusted was the
Everlasting Son of the Father. And it takes it for granted that, so
deeply was that truth embedded in their new consciousness that an
allusion to it was all that was needed for their understanding and their
faith. That is the first part of the testimony.
II. Now, secondly, let us ask what this witness has to say about the
dying Christ.
There is no doctrinal theology in the Epistle to the Thessalonians, they
tell us. Granted that there is no articulate argumentative setting forth
of great doctrinal truths. But these are implied and involved in almost
every word of it; and are definitely stated thus incidentally in more
places than one. Let us hear the witness about the dying Christ.
First, as to the fact, ‘The Jews killed the Lord Jesus.’ The historical
fact is here set forth distinctly. And then, beyond the fact, there is
as distinctly, though in the same incidental fashion, set forth the
meaning of that fact–‘God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us.’
Here are at least two things–one, the allusion, as to a well-known and
received truth, proclaimed before now to them, that Jesus Christ in His
death had died for them; and the other, that Jesus Christ was the medium
through whom the Father had appointed that men should obtain all the
blessings which are wrapped up in that sovereign word ‘salvation.’ I
need but mention in this connection another verse, from another part of
the letter, which speaks of Jesus as ‘He that delivereth us from the
wrath to come.’ Remark that there our Authorised Version fails to give
the whole significance of the words, because it translates _delivered_,
instead of, as the Revised Version correctly does, _delivereth_. It is a
continuous deliverance, running all through the life of the Christian
man, and not merely to be realised away yonder at the far end; because
by the mighty providence of God, and by the automatic working of the
consequences of every transgression and disobedience, that ‘wrath’ is
ever coming, coming, coming towards men, and lighting on them, and a
continual Deliverer, who delivers us by His death, is what the human
heart needs. This witness is distinct that the death of Christ is a
sacrifice, that the death of Christ is man’s deliverance from wrath,
that the death of Christ is a present deliverance from the consequences
of transgression.
And was that Paul’s peculiar doctrine? Is it conceivable that, in a
letter in which he refers–once, at all events–to the churches in Judea
as their ‘brethren,’ he was proclaiming any individual or schismatic
reading of the facts of the life of Jesus Christ? I believe that there
has been a great deal too much made of the supposed divergencies of
types of doctrine in the New Testament. There are such types, within
certain limits. Nobody would mistake a word of John’s calm, mystical,
contemplative spirit for a word of Paul’s fiery, dialectic spirit. And
nobody would mistake either the one or the other for Peter’s impulsive,
warm-hearted exhortations. But whilst there are diversities in the way
of apprehending, there are no diversities in the declaration of what is
the central truth to be apprehended. These varyings of the types of
doctrine in the New Testament are one in this, that all point to the
Cross as the world’s salvation, and declare that the death there was the
death for all mankind.
Paul comes to it with his reasoning; John comes to it with his adoring
contemplation; Peter comes to it with his mind saturated with Old
Testament allusions. Paul declares that the ‘Christ died for us’; John
declares that He is ‘the Lamb of God’; Peter declares that ‘Christ bare
our sins in His own body on the tree.’ But all make one unbroken phalanx
of witness in their proclamation, that the Cross, because it is a cross
of sacrifice, is a cross of reconciliation and peace and hope. And this
is the Gospel that they all proclaim, ‘how that Jesus Christ died for
our sins according to the Scriptures,’ and Paul could venture to say,
‘Whether it were they or I, so we preach, and so ye believed.’
That was the Gospel that took these heathens, wallowing in the mire of
sensuous idolatry, and lifted them up to the elevation and the
blessedness of children of God.
And if you will read this letter, and think that there had been only a
few weeks of acquaintance with the Gospel on the part of its readers,
and then mark how the early and imperfect glimpse of it had transformed
them, you will see where the power lies in the proclamation of the
Gospel. A short time before they had been heathens; and now says Paul,
‘From you sounded out the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and
Achaia, but also in every place your faith to Godward is spread abroad;
so that we need not to speak anything.’ We do not need to talk to you
about ‘love of the brethren,’ for ‘yourselves are taught of God to love
one another, and my heart is full of thankfulness when I think of your
work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope.’ The men had been
transformed. What transformed them? The message of a divine and dying
Christ, who had offered up Himself without spot unto God, and who was
their peace and their righteousness and their power.
III. Thirdly, notice what this witness has to say about the risen and
ascended Christ. Here is what it has to say: ‘Ye turned unto God . . . to
wait for His Son from heaven whom He raised from the dead.’ And again:
‘The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.’ The risen
Christ, then, is in the heavens, and Paul assumes that these people,
just brought out of heathenism, have received that truth into their
hearts in the love of it, and know it so thoroughly that he can take for
granted their entire acquiescence in and acceptance of it.
Remember, we have nothing to do with the four Gospels here. Remember,
not a line of them had yet been written. Remember, that we are dealing
here with an entirely independent witness. And then tell us what
importance is to be attached to this evidence of the Resurrection of
Jesus Christ. Twenty years after His death here is this man speaking
about that Resurrection as being not only something that he had to
proclaim, and believed, but as being the recognised and notorious fact
which all the churches accepted, and which underlay all their faith.
I would have you remember that if, twenty years after this event, this
witness was borne, that necessarily carries us back a great deal nearer
to the event than the hour of its utterance, for there is no mark of
its being new testimony at that instant, but every mark of its being the
habitual and continuous witness that had been borne from the instant of
the alleged Resurrection to the present time. It at least takes us back
a good many years nearer the empty sepulchre than the twenty which mark
its date. It at least takes us back to the conversion of the Apostle
Paul; and that necessarily involves, as it seems to me, that if that
man, believing in the Resurrection, went into the Church, there would
have been an end of his association with them, unless he had found there
the same faith. The fact of the matter is, there is not a place where
you can stick a pin in, between the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the
date of this letter, wide enough to admit of the rise of the faith in a
Resurrection. We are necessarily forced by the very fact of the
existence of the Church to the admission that the belief in the
Resurrection was contemporaneous with the alleged Resurrection itself.
And so we are shut up–in spite of the wriggling of people that do not
accept that great truth–we are shut up to the old alternative, as it
seems to me, that either Jesus Christ rose from the dead, or the noblest
lives that the world has ever seen, and the loftiest system of morality
that has ever been proclaimed, were built upon a lie. And we are called
to believe that at the bidding of a mere unsupported, bare, dogmatic
assertion that miracles are impossible. Believe it who will, I decline
to be coerced into believing a blank, staring psychological
contradiction and impossibility, in order to be saved the necessity of
admitting the existence of the supernatural. I would rather believe in
the supernatural than the ridiculous. And to me it is unspeakably
ridiculous to suppose that anything but the fact of the Resurrection
accounts for the existence of the Church, and for the faith of this
witness that we have before us.
And so, dear friends, we come back to this, the Christianity that flings
away the risen Christ is a mere mass of tatters with nothing in it to
cover a man’s nakedness, an illusion with no vitality in it to quicken,
to comfort, to ennoble, to raise, to teach aspiration or hope or effort.
The human heart needs the ‘Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.’ And this independent witness confirms the Gospel
story: ‘Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits
of them that slept.’
IV. Lastly, let us hear what this witness has to say about the returning
Christ.
That is the characteristic doctrinal subject of the letter. We all know
that wonderful passage of unsurpassed tenderness and majesty, which has
soothed so many hearts and been like a gentle hand laid upon so many
aching spirits, about the returning Jesus ‘coming in the clouds,’ with
the dear ones that are asleep along with Him, and the reunion of them
that sleep and them that are alive and remain, in one indissoluble
concord and concourse, when we shall ever be with the Lord, and ‘clasp
inseparable hands with joy and bliss in over-measure for ever.’ The
coming of the Master does not appear here with emphasis on its judicial
aspect. It is rather intended to bring hope to the mourners, and the
certainty that bands broken here may be re-knit in holier fashion
hereafter. But the judicial aspect is not, as it could not be, left out,
and the Apostle further tells us that ‘that day cometh as a thief in the
night.’ That is a quotation of the Master’s own words, which we find in
the Gospels; and so again a confirmation, so far as it goes, from an
independent witness, of the Gospel story. And then he goes on, in
terrible language, to speak of ‘sudden destruction, as of travail upon a
woman with child; and they shall not escape.’
These, then, are the points of this witness’s testimony as to the
returning Lord–a personal coming, a reunion of all believers in Him, in
order to eternal felicity and mutual gladness, and the destruction that
shall fall by His coming upon those who turn away from Him.
What a revelation that would be to men who had known what it was to
grope in the darkness of heathendom, and to have new light upon the
future!
I remember once walking in the long galleries of the Vatican, on the one
side of which there are Christian inscriptions from the catacombs, and
on the other heathen inscriptions from the tombs. One side is all dreamy
and hopeless; one long sigh echoing along the line of white
marbles–‘Vale! vale! in aeternum vale!’ (Farewell, farewell, for ever
farewell.) On the other side–‘In Christo, in pace, in spe.’ (In Christ,
in peace, in hope.) That is the witness that we have to lay to our
hearts. And so death becomes a passage, and we let go the dear hands,
believing that we shall clasp them again.
My brother! this witness is to a gospel that is the gospel for
Manchester as well as for Thessalonica. You and I want just the same as
these old heathens there wanted. We, too, need the divine Christ, the
dying Christ, the risen Christ, the ascended Christ, the returning
Christ. And I beseech you to take Him for _your_ Christ, in all the
fulness of His offices, the manifoldness of His power, and the sweetness
of His love, so that of you it may be said, as this Apostle says about
these Thessalonians, ‘Ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it
is in truth, as the word of God.’

Bible Scriptures

Bible Verses About love – Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Bible Verses About love – Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Bible Verses About love – Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Bible Scriptures – Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.

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Bible Scriptures About alive – Kings-1 20:32
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive? he [is] my brother.

Bible Scriptures About art – Luke 2:29
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:

Bible Scriptures About man – Esther 5:5
Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Bible Scriptures About perfect – Isaiah 38:3
And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Bible Scriptures About trouble – Psalms 83:17
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

Bible Scriptures About good – Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Bible Scriptures About flock – Luke 2:8
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Bible Scriptures About mother – Matthew 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

Bible Scriptures About teach – Matthew 11:1
And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.

Bible Scriptures About wilt – Job 41:4
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Bible Scriptures About call – Acts 6:9
Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Bible Scriptures About covered – Samuel-2 22:16
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Bible Scriptures About rock – Psalms 62:2
He only [is] my rock and my salvation; [he is] my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

Bible Scriptures About born – Kings-1 16:34
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

Bible Scriptures About filled – Revelations 19:21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Bible Scriptures About help – Job 26:2
How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength?

Bible Scriptures About singing – Samuel-1 18:6
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.

Bible Scriptures About live – Isaiah 38:6
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

Bible Scriptures About city – Samuel-1 5:11
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

Bible Scriptures About seed – Luke 8:5
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

Bible Scriptures About fathers – Judges 2:22
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.

Bible Scriptures About bless – Deuteronomy 30:1
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

Bible Scriptures About prayer – Psalms 69:13
But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

Bible Scriptures About heaven – Luke 20:4
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

Bible Scriptures About wife – Exodus 6:20
And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and thirty and seven years.

Bible Scriptures About faith – Timothy-1 6:21
Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen.

Bible Scriptures About fear – Proverbs 1:29
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Bible Scriptures About trust – Psalms 31:19
[Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Bible Scriptures About clean – Samuel-1 20:26
Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he [is] not clean; surely he [is] not clean.

Bible Scriptures About baptism – Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Bible Scriptures About husbands – Ezekiel 16:45
Thou [art] thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Bible Scriptures About water – Acts 8:39
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

Bible Scriptures About life – Genesis 18:14
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Bible Scriptures About peace – Zecharia 6:13
Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Bible Scriptures About tongue – Job 33:2
Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

Bible Scriptures About money – Kings-2 23:35
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give [it] unto Pharaohnechoh.

Bible Scriptures About grace – John 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Bible Scriptures About healing – Luke 9:11
And the people, when they knew [it], followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

Bible Scriptures About wisdom – Daniel 5:14
I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.

Bible Scriptures About joy – Isaiah 52:9
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Bible Scriptures About sabbath – John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.

Bible Scriptures About inheritance – Kings-1 21:4
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

Bible Scriptures About wicked – Jeremiah 23:11
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

Bible Scriptures About david – Psalms 144:1
[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:

Bible Scriptures About soul – Psalms 146:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

World English Bible

Bible Verses About visions – Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Bible Verses About heaven – Revelations 12:12
Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Bible Verses About clean – Chronicles-2 29:18
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the vessels thereof.

Bible Verses About youth – Samuel-1 17:33
And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

Bible Verses About life – Luke 14:26
If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Bible Verses About forgive – Psalms 25:18
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Bible Verses About wife – Peter-1 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Bible Verses About baptism – Luke 20:4
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

Bible Verses About goodness – Psalms 25:7
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Bible Verses About dreams – Samuel-1 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Bible Verses About villages – Judges 5:11
[They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

Bible Verses About admonish – Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Bible Verses About revive – Hosea 14:7
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.

Bible Verses About alien – Ezekiel 23:28
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand [of them] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of them] from whom thy mind is alienated:

Bible Verses About language – Zephania 3:9
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

Bible Verses About farm – Matthew 22:5
But they made light of [it], and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

Bible Verses About memorial – Zecharia 6:14
And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.

Bible Verses About hereafter – Revelations 9:12
One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Bible Verses About bathe – Leviticus 15:18
The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the even.

Bible Verses About adorn – Peter-1 3:5
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

King James Bible

Bible Verses About separated – Genesis 13:14
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Bible Verses About lost – John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Bible Verses About shields – Chronicles-2 9:16
And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Bible Verses About lamps – Numbers 4:9
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:

Bible Verses About sore – Joshua 9:24
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Bible Verses About approach – Jeremiah 30:21
And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is] this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.

Bible Verses About need – Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Bible Verses About slew – Kings-1 2:5
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that [was] about his loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.

Bible Verses About sick – Chronicles-2 21:19
And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

Bible Verses About diseases – Acts 28:9
So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:

Bible Verses About uprightness – Job 4:6
[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Bible Verses About sanctified – Timothy-1 4:5
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Bible Verses About corruption – Acts 2:31
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

Bible Verses About talked – Jeremiah 38:25
But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

Bible Verses About grieved – Psalms 139:21
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Bible Verses About midnight – Acts 16:25
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

Bible Verses About ordained – Hebrews 8:3
For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore [it is] of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

Bible Verses About oath – Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

Bible Verses About lions – Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Bible Verses About defile – Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Bible Verses About dragons – Isaiah 13:22
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Bible Verses About liberty – Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;

Bible Verses About camp – Numbers 33:14
And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

Bible Verses About elect – Mark 13:27
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

Bible Verses About instruction – Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.