For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
"There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
"Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'
If these ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
So Job died, being old and full of days. BOOK I
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"
After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
And they wondered at her beauty and admired the children of Israel because of her, and each one said to his neighbor, "Who could despise this people, who have such women among them? Surely it is not good for one man among them to be left, who, being set free, might deceive the whole earth."
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