Acts 2:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.

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  • Ps 21:6 : 6 For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
  • Ps 21:4 : 4 He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.
  • Ps 4:6-7 : 6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us. 7 Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
  • Ps 25:4 : 4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.
  • Ps 42:5 : 5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Prov 2:19 : 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
  • Prov 8:20 : 20 I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead; 26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

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