when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us; for there is no restraint on the LORD to save by many or by few."
Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle."
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.
Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.
Then shall stand up in his place one who shall cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory; but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.
the LORD didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
"Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few."
Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,
how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it."
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us:
Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.
After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."
If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?" He said to them,
He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.
They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
For many are called, but few chosen."
"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they traveled.
and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.
According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer."
You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites."
when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
Let his days be few. Let another take his office.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
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