Ecclesiastes 3:14

Coverdale Bible (1535)

I cosidered also yt what so euer God doth, it cotinueth for euer, & yt nothinge can be put vnto it ner take from it: & yt God doth it to ye intent, yt men shulde feare him.

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  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Euery good gifte, & euery parfait gift, is from aboue, and cometh downe from ye father of light, with whom is no variablenes, nether is he chaunged vnto darcknes.
  • Rom 11:36 : 36 For of him, and thorow him, and in him are all thinges. To him be prayse for euer, Amen.
  • Ps 33:11 : 11 But the coucell of the LORDE endureth, and the thoughtes of his hert from generacion to generacion.
  • Ps 64:9 : 9 And all men that se it, shal saye: this hath God done for they shal perceaue, yt it is his worke.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 Sela. When thou punyshest one man, he must knowlege, that thou art redy to punysh other mo.
  • Ps 119:90-91 : 90 Thy treuth also remayneth from one generacion to another: thou hast layed the foundacion of the earth, and it abydeth. 91 They cotinue this daye acordinge to thy ordinaunce, for all thinges serue the.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 There are many deuices in a mas herte, neuertheles the coucell of ye LORDE shal stode.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wy?dome, there is no vnderstondinge, there is no councell agaynst the LORDE.
  • Prov 30:6 : 6 Put thou nothinge therfore vnto his wordes, lest he reproue the, and thou be founde as a lyar.
  • Eccl 5:7 : 7 And why? where as are many dreames & many wordes, there are also dyuerse vanities: but loke yt thou feare God.
  • Eccl 7:18 : 18 It is good for the to take holde of this, & not to let yt go out of thy hande. For he yt feareth God shal escape them all.
  • Eccl 8:12-13 : 12 But though an euell personne offende an hundreth tymes, and haue a longe life: yet am I sure, that it shal go well with the that feare God, because they haue him before their eyes. 13 Agayne, as for the vngodly, it shall not be well with him, nether shal he prologe his dayes: but euen as a shadowe, so shall he be that feareth not God.
  • Isa 10:12-15 : 12 Wherfore the LORDE saieth: As soone as I haue perfourmed my whole worcke vpon the Hyl of Syon and Ierusalem: the will I also vyset the noble and stoute kynge of Assiria, with his wysdome and pryde. 13 For he stondeth thus in his owne coceate: This do I, thorow the power of myne owne honde, and thorow my wisdome: For I am wyse, I am he that remoue the londes of the people, I robbe their prynces: and (like one of the worthies) I dryue them from their hie seates. 14 My honde hath founde out the hoostes of the people, as it were a nest. And like as egges, that were layde here and there, are gathered together: So do I gather all countrees. And there is no man, yt darre be so bolde, as to touch a fether, that darre open his mouth, or once whisper. 15 But doth the axe boost itself, agaynst him yt heweth therwith, or doth the sawe make eny krakinge, agaynst him that ruleth it? That were euen like, as yf the rod dyd exalte it self agaynst him, that beareth it: or as though ye staff shulde magnifie it self, as who saye: it were no wodd.
  • Isa 46:10 : 10 In the begynnynge of a thinge, I shewe the ende therof: and I tel before, thinges that are not yet come to passe. With one worde is my deuyce accomplished, & fulfilleth all my pleasure.
  • Isa 59:18-19 : 18 (like as when a man goeth forth wrothfully to recopence his enemies, & to be avenged of his aduersaries.) Namely, that he might recompence and rewarde the Ilodes, 19 wherthorow the name of the LORDE might be feared, from the risynge of the Sone: and his magesty, vnto the goinge downe of the same. For he shal come as a violent waterstreame, which the wynde of the LORDE hath moued.
  • Dan 4:34-35 : 34 When this tyme was past, I Nabuchodonosor lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen, and myne vnderstondinge was restored vnto me agayne. Then gaue I thankes vnto the hyest. I magnified and praysed him that lyueth for euermore, whose power endureth allwaye, and his kyngdome from one generacion to another: 35 in comparyson off whom, all they that dwell vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothinge. He handleth acordinge to his will, amoge ye powers of heauen & amonge the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that maye resiste his honde, or saye: what doest thou?
  • Dan 8:8 : 8 The goate waxed exceadinge greate, and when he was at the strongest, his greate horne was broken also. Then grewe there other foure soch like in the steade, towarde the foure wyndes off the heauen.
  • Dan 11:2-4 : 2 and now wil I shewe the the treuth. Beholde, there shal stonde vp yet thre kinges in Persia, but ye fourth shal be farre richer then they all. And when he is in the chefest power of his riches, he shal prouoke euery man agaynst the realme of Grekelonde. 3 Then shal there arise yet a mightie kinge, that shal rule with greate dominion, and do what him list. 4 And as soone as his kingdome commeth vp, it shalbe destroyed, & deuyded towarde ye foure wyndes of the heauen. They yt come after him, shall not haue soch power & dominion as he: but his kingdome shalbe scatred, yee euen amonge other the those.
  • John 19:10-11 : 10 The sayde Pilate vnto him: Speakest thou not vnto me? Knowest thou not, yt I haue power to crucifye ye, & haue power to lowse ye? 11 Iesus answered: Thou shuldest haue no power vpo me, yf it were not geue the from aboue. Therfore he that delyuered me vnto ye, hath the more synne.
  • John 19:28-37 : 28 After that whan Iesus knewe that all was perfourmed, that the scripture might be fulfylled, he sayde: I am a thyrst. 29 There stode a vessell full of vyneger. They fylled a sponge with vyneger and wonde it aboute with ysope, and helde it to his mouth. 30 Now whan Iesus had receaued the vyneger, he sayde: It is fynished, and bowed his heade, and gaue vp the goost. 31 The Iewes then, for so moch as it was the daye of preparinge, that ye bodies shulde not remayne vpon the crosse on the Sabbath, (for ye same Sabbath daye was greate) besought Pilate, that their legges might be broken, and that they might be taken downe. 32 Then came the soudyers, and brake the legges of the first, and of the other that was crucifyed with him. 33 But whan they came to Iesus, and sawe that he was deed allready, they brake not his legges, 34 but one of the soudyers opened his syde with a speare. And immediatly there wente out bloude and water. 35 And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his recorde is true. And he knoweth that he sayeth true, that ye might beleue also. 36 For this is done, yt the scripture might be fulfylled: Ye shal not breake a bone of him. 37 And agayne, another scripture sayeth: They shal se him, whom they haue pearsed.
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 him (after that he was delyuered by the determinate councell and foreknowlege of God) haue ye taken by the handes of vnrighteous personnes, and crucifyed him, & slayne him,
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 to do what soeuer thy hande and thy councell determyned before to be done.
  • Acts 5:39 : 39 but yf it be of God, ye are not able to destroye it, lest ye be founde to be the men, that wil stryue agaynst God.
  • Eph 3:11 : 11 acordinge to ye eternall purpose, which he hath shewed in Christ Iesu oure LORDE
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 vpon the hope of eternall life: which God that can not lye hath promysed before the tymes of the worlde:
  • Rev 15:4 : 4 Who shal not feare the O LORDE and gloryfie thy name? For thou only art holy, for all getiles shall come and worshippe before the, for thy iudgmentes are made manyfest.

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