Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.
For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction."
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the LORD's house, and spread it before the LORD.
"Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins."
For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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.
"I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
O the LORD, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Yet hear the word of the LORD, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says the LORD.
then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
"Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,
We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
I don't receive glory from men.
I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."
He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!
With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:
For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them."
But his wife said to him, "If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these."
then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,
"But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."
and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great."
They didn't receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.
Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say,
It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'
I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."
Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,
And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."
This again you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'
"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."
Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
"Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.
For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."
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