17 Verses About Private from 10 Books

2_Peter 1:20

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

Acts 23:19

The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

Additions_to_Esther 8:16

You know my necessity, for I abhor the sign of my high estate, which is upon my head in the days when I show myself, and that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear it not when I am in private by myself.

Bel_and_the_Dragon 1:13

And they had little concern about it because under the table they had made a private entrance, whereby they entered in continually and consumed those things.

Bel_and_the_Dragon 1:21

and he took the priests with their wives and children, who showed him the private doors where they came in and consumed such things as were on the table.

Galatians 2:2

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Luke 10:23

Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,



Mark 4:34

Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Mark 7:33

He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

Mark 9:2

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

Mark 9:28

When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"

Mark 13:3

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

Matthew 17:19

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"

Matthew 24:3

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"



Susanna 1:18

And they did as she asked them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves through private doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them; but they did not see the elders, because they were hidden.

Susanna 1:26

So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in through the private door to see what had happened to her.

Tobias 1:18

And if the king Sennacherib had slain anyone, when he arrived and fled from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many, but the bodies were not found when they were sought by the king.





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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said; And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.

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The Gospel of The Birth of Mary was attributed to St. Matthew and was received as genuine and authentic by early Christians. It is to be found in the works of Jerome, a Father of the Church in the 4th century and is translated from his collection.


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