And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Son of man, say unto her, Thou [art] the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
[Ye] blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that [are] with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is; on] the wilderness, wherein [there is] no man;
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which [is] in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain.
For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, [and] refrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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