Bible Verses about 'A'
- A wise child makes a glad father,
but a foolish child is a mother's grief. - Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path. - A cheerful heart is a good medicine,
but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. - No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
- What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
and it is better to be poor than a liar. - I have made a covenant with my eyes;
how then could I look upon a virgin? - Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me. - A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. - Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people. - A fool's lips bring strife,
and a fool's mouth invites a flogging. - The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble. - A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. - You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.
- A faithful witness does not lie,
but a false witness breathes out lies. - A perverse person spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends. - Fine speech is not becoming to a fool;
still less is false speech to a ruler. - A friend loves at all times,
and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. - A gossip goes about telling secrets,
but one who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a confidence. - To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone,
and a word in season, how good it is! - He who finds a wife finds a good thing,
and obtains favor from the Lord. - For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
- For a thousand years in your sight
are like yesterday when it is past,
or like a watch in the night. - The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. - There is a way that seems right to a person,
but its end is the way to death. - Some friends play at friendship
but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. - How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.
- A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. - Wealth is a ransom for a person's life,
but the poor get no threats. - It is a snare for one to say rashly, “It is holy,”
and begin to reflect only after making a vow. - But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.
- For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than live in the tents of wickedness. - But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- Anxiety weighs down the human heart,
but a good word cheers it up. - A fool gives full vent to anger,
but the wise quietly holds it back. - A fool despises a parent's instruction,
but the one who heeds admonition is prudent. - Like a city breached, without walls,
is one who lacks self-control. - For his anger is but for a moment;
his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may linger for the night,
but joy comes with the morning. - Lying lips conceal hatred,
and whoever utters slander is a fool. - Until a spirit from on high is poured out on us,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. - Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame. - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.
- Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!
Lo, your king comes to you;
triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey. - A gift opens doors;
it gives access to the great. - Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a sabbath to the Lord throughout your settlements.
- They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
- The Lord is good,
a stronghold in a day of trouble;
he protects those who take refuge in him. - If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Fools show their anger at once,
but the prudent ignore an insult. - For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
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