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Not to be altered

Deut 4:2
Do not add other laws or subtract from these;
Deut 12:32
Do not add to or subtract from them.
Rev 22:18
If anyone adds anything to what is written here,

To be taught

Deut 6:7
You must teach them to your children
Deut 17:19
He must read from it every day of his life

To be searched

John 5:39
You search the Scriptures for you believe
John 7:52
Search the Scriptures and see for yourself
Acts 17:11
They searched the Scriptures day by day

Given through the prophets

Luke 16:31
If they wont listen to Moses and the prophets,
Heb 1:1
to our fathers through the prophets [in visions,

Expounded, examples

Neh 8:7-8
explained the meaning of the passage
Luke 4:21
he added, These Scriptures came true today!
Luke 24:27
explaining what the passages meant

Taught by the apostles

Acts 2:16
What you see this morning was predicted long ago
Acts 3:18
the prophecies that the Messiah must suffer
Acts 8:35
So Philip began with this same Scripture
Acts 13:37
[No, it was referring to another]

Unbelief in

Prov 13:13
Despise Gods Word and find yourself in trouble.
Isa 5:24
for they have thrown away the laws of God
Isa 30:9
Oh, no, theyll say, you never told us that!
Luke 16:31
wont listen even though someone rises from the dead.
1 Cor 1:18
how foolish it sounds to those who are lost,

Point to Christ

John 5:39
the Scriptures point to me!
Acts 10:43
all the prophets have written about him,
Acts 18:28
by the Scriptures that Jesus is indeed the Messiah.
1 Cor 15:3
Christ died for our sins just as the Scriptures said

Confirmed by Christ

Matt 5:17
I came to fulfill them, and to make them all come true.
Luke 24:27
what they said about himself.
John 19:23-24
This fulfilled the Scripture that says,

Illustrations applied to the

Matt 13:37
I am the farmer who sows the choice seed.
Mark 4:3
Listen! A farmer decided to sow some grain.
Heb 4:12
it is sharper than the sharpest dagger,

SECRET(S)

Known to God

Psa 44:21
Yes, he knows the secrets of every heart.
Eccl 12:14
including every hidden thing, good or bad.
Rom 2:16
will judge the secret lives of everyone,

Revealed by God

Psa 25:14
alone he shares the secrets of his promises.
Prov 3:32
he gives friendship to the godly.
Matt 11:25
revealing it to little children.
Matt 13:34-35
explain mysteries hidden since the beginning
2 Cor 3:16
then the veil is taken away.

Things to be done in

Matt 6:3
when you do a kindness to someone, do it secretly
Matt 6:6
pray to your Father secretly,

Of others, to be respected

Prov 25:8-10
Dont tell anyone else, lest he accuse you
Matt 18:15
go to him privately and confront him

SELF-DENIAL

Examples of

Gen 13:9
Take your choice of any section of the land
1 Kgs 17:15
she and Elijah and her son continued to eat
Est 4:16
do not eat or drink for three days, night or day;
Dan 5:17
Keep your gifts, or give them to someone else,
Matt 4:20
they left their nets at once and went with him.
Mark 10:28
Weve given up everything to follow you, he said,
Acts 2:45
selling their possessions and dividing them
Acts 4:37
sold a field and brought the money to the apostles
Acts 20:34
to supply the needs of those who were with me.
1 Cor 4:12
We have worked wearily with our hands

Of Christ

Matt 4:10
Get out of here, Satan, Jesus told him.
Luke 9:58
I dont even own a place to lay my head.
Rom 15:3
Christ didnt please himself.
Phil 2:6
did not demand and cling to his rights as God,
1 Pet 4:1
Since Christ suffered and underwent pain,

Exhortation to Christians concerning

Matt 10:38
take up your cross and follow me,
Matt 16:24
deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Mark 8:34
you must put aside your own pleasures
Luke 9:23
carry his cross with him every day
Luke 14:26
must love me far more than he does his own father,
Rom 13:14
dont make plans to enjoy evil.
1 Cor 10:24
Try to think of the other fellow, too,
Titus 2:12
God wants us to turn from godless living
1 Pet 2:11
keep away from the evil pleasures of this world;

SELFISHNESS

Examples of

Isa 56:11
shepherds who only look after their own interest,
Ezek 34:18
you take the best water for yourselves,
Matt 19:22
he went away sadly, for he was very rich.

Condemned

Prov 11:26
People curse the man who holds his grain
1 Tim 3:2
For people will love only themselves
Jas 2:15
If you have a friend who is in need of food
1 Joh 3:17
sees a brother in need, and wont help him

Exhortations against

Matt 19:21
sell everything you have and give the money to the poor,
Luke 6:34
Even the most wicked will lend to their own kind
Rom 14:15
Dont let your eating ruin someone for whom Christ died.
Rom 15:1
we cannot just go ahead and please ourselves;
2 Cor 5:15
live no longer for themselves, to please themselves,
Phil 2:4
Dont just think about your own affairs,

SHAME

Of Adam and Eve

Gen 3:7
became aware of their nakedness, and were embarrassed.

Of Gods enemies

Psa 40:14-15
Disgrace these scoffers with their utter failure!
Psa 109:29
Make them fail in everything they do.
Ezek 7:18
horror and shame shall cover you;
Dan 12:2
some to everlasting life and some to shame

Christ ashamed of apostates

Mark 8:38
I, the Messiah, will be ashamed of him when I return
Luke 9:26
I will be ashamed then of all who are ashamed of me

Of the cross

Heb 12:2
He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross

Those without

Zep 3:5
no one heedsthe wicked know no shame.

SHEEP
, see
Offering(s), animals used for

Sacrificed, examples

Gen 4:4
his best lambs, and presented them to the Lord.
Gen 22:13
So he took the ram and sacrificed it,
Lev 1:10
the animal used as a burnt offering is a sheep
1 Kgs 8:62-63
a total of 22,000 oxen and 120,000
sheep
2 Chr 30:24
1,000 young bulls for offerings, and 7,000 sheep;

Parable of the lost

Matt 18:12
If a man has a hundred sheep, and one wanders away
Luke 15:3-4
If you had a hundred sheep and one of them strayed

Figurative

1 Chr 21:17
But what have these sheep done? O Lord my God,
Psa 74:1
Why is your anger hot against usthe sheep
Jer 50:17
The Israelites are like sheep the lions chase.
Matt 26:31
the sheep of the flock will be scattered.
Mark 14:27
kill the Shepherd, and the sheep will scatter.
John 10:3
the sheep hear his voice and come to him;

SHEPHERD(S)

Examples of

Gen 4:2
Abel became a shepherd while Cain was a farmer.
Gen 29:9
her fathers sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Exod 2:16
fill the water troughs for their fathers flocks.
Exod 3:1
Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law
1 Sam 16:10-11
hes out in the fields watching the sheep.
2 Sam 7:8
you were a mere shepherd, tending your sheep
Psa 78:70
his servant David, taking him from feeding sheep,

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