So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;
May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;
But the word of the Lord went on increasing.
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.
And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.
But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,
But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.
Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:
Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.
And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.
And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.
There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.
You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.
And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.
And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.
And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.
Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.
In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?
Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.
For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.
And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
And the power of the children of Israel went on increasing against Jabin, king of Canaan, till he was cut off.
The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
And if it is increasing on the skin, the priest will say that he is unclean: it is a disease.
And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.
And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.
And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.
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