Verse 18
that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',
Referenced Verses
- Titus 1:2 : 2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
- Num 23:19 : 19 God `is' not a man -- and lieth, And a son of man -- and repenteth! Hath He said -- and doth He not do `it'? And spoken -- and doth He not confirm it?
- 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 and also, the Pre-eminence of Israel doth not lie nor repent, for He `is' not a man to be penitent.'
- Isa 27:5 : 5 Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.
- Isa 32:1-2 : 1 Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule. 2 And each hath been as a hiding-place `from' wind, And as a secret hiding-place `from' inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.
- Isa 51:12 : 12 I -- I `am' He -- your comforter, Who `art' thou -- and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man -- grass he is made!
- Isa 56:4 : 4 For thus said Jehovah of the eunuchs, Who do keep My sabbaths, And have fixed on that which I desired, And are keeping hold on My covenant:
- Isa 64:7 : 7 And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.
- Gen 19:22 : 22 haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.
- Prov 4:13 : 13 Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life.
- Zech 9:12 : 12 Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.
- Matt 3:7 : 7 And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?
- 1 Kgs 2:28 : 28 And the report hath come unto Joab -- for Joab hath turned aside after Adonijah, though after Absalom he did not turn aside -- and Joab fleeth unto the tent of Jehovah, and layeth hold on the horns of the altar.
- Ps 46:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' -- A song. God `is' to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.
- Num 35:11-15 : 11 and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares, 12 and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment. 13 `As to the cities which ye give -- six `are' cities of refuge to you; 14 the three of the cities ye give beyond the Jordan, and the three of the cities ye give in the land of Canaan; cities of refuge they are. 15 To sons of Israel, and to a sojourner, and to a settler in their midst, are these six cities for a refuge, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting a person unawares.
- Josh 20:3 : 3 for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood.
- Ps 110:4 : 4 Jehovah hath sworn, and doth not repent, `Thou `art' a priest to the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.'
- 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,
- 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.
- 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.
- Heb 3:11 : 11 so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')
- Luke 2:25 : 25 And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name `is' Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,
- Rom 3:4 : 4 let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'
- Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --
- Rom 15:5 : 5 And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;
- 2 Cor 1:5-7 : 5 because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort; 6 and whether we be in tribulation, `it is' for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, `it is' for your comfort and salvation; 7 and our hope `is' stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.
- Phil 2:1 : 1 If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
- Col 1:5 : 5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,
- Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God did will to make known what `is' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
- 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.
- 2 Thess 2:16-17 : 16 and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace, 17 comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
- Heb 7:21 : 21 and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')
- Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.
- Heb 12:1-2 : 1 Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, 2 looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
- 1 John 1:10 : 10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.
- 1 John 5:10 : 10 He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;
- Prov 3:18 : 18 A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy.
- Ps 62:8 : 8 Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God `is' a refuge for us. Selah.
- Matt 24:35 : 35 The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
- Isa 66:10-13 : 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, And be glad in her, all ye loving her, Rejoice ye with her for joy, All ye are mourning for her, 11 So that ye suck, and have been satisfied, From the breast of her consolations, So that ye wring out, and have delighted yourselves From the abundance of her honour. 12 For thus said Jehovah: `Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled. 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you, Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted.
- Heb 3:6 : 6 and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.
- Col 1:23 : 23 if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
- 2 Cor 5:18-21 : 18 And the all things `are' of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation, 19 how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation, 20 in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;' 21 for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.