Isaiah 50:4
The Servant Perseveres The Sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.
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- Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
- Jer 1:9 : 9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,“I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.
- Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Matt 13:54 : 54 Then he came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said,“Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?
- Matt 22:46 : 46 No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.
- Luke 4:22 : 22 All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said,“Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
- Ps 119:147 : 147 I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word.
- John 7:15-17 : 15 Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said,“How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” 16 So Jesus replied,“My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.
- Prov 15:23 : 23 A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time– how good it is!
- Prov 25:11 : 11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.
- Ps 143:8 : 8 May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.
- Exod 4:11-12 : 11 The LORD said to him,“Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”
- Ps 5:3 : 3 LORD, in the morning you will hear me; in the morning I will present my case to you and then wait expectantly for an answer.
- Ps 45:2 : 2 You are the most handsome of all men! You speak in an impressive and fitting manner! For this reason God grants you continual blessings.
- Isa 57:15-19 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged. 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created. 17 I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. 18 I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them. I will lead them, and I will provide comfort to them and those who mourn with them. 19 I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the LORD,“and I will heal them.
- John 7:46 : 46 The officers replied,“No one ever spoke like this man!”
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