Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.
So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.
And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.
And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.
So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.
Now she had men waiting secretly in the inner room; and she said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And the cords were broken by him as a twist of thread is broken when touched by a flame. So the secret of his strength did not come to light.
But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.
And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.
Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
No man, when the light has been lighted, puts it in a secret place, or under a vessel, but on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.
But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.
And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.
(And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.
For nothing is put out of view which will not be made clear, and nothing is secret of which the knowledge will not come to light.
And when the woman saw that she was not able to keep it secret, she came, shaking with fear, and falling down before him she made clear before all the people the reason for her touching him, and how she was made well straight away.
But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.
And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;
There is nothing covered which will not be seen openly, and nothing has been made secret which will not come to light.
And he went away from there to the country of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house, desiring that no man might have knowledge of it: and he was not able to keep it secret.
Have, then, no fear of them: because nothing is covered which will not come to light, or secret which will not be made clear.
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.
But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place.
So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:
They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.
Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.
No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!
Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,
And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock.
By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!
It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.
A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.
Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.
Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:
It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:
Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
Better is open protest than love kept secret.
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.
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