John 9:3

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John 9:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,

2 and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.

4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

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Job 1:8

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Job 1:9

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Job 1:10

Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Job 1:11

But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Job 1:12

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

Job 2:3

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 2:5

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Job 2:6

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 22:5

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Job 22:6

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Job 22:8

while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

Job 22:9

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 22:10

Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Job 22:11

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 22:12

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Job 22:13

Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Job 22:14

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

Job 22:15

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 22:17

They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

Job 22:18

But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Job 22:19

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

Job 22:20

‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

Job 22:21

Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

Job 22:24

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Job 22:25

then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

Job 22:26

Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27

You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

Job 22:28

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29

When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

Job 22:30

He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

Job 32:3

and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

Job 42:7

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

Luke 13:2

To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate?

Luke 13:3

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

Luke 13:4

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

Acts 28:4

When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

John 11:4

When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

John 11:40

Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

John 14:11

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.

John 14:12

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

John 14:13

And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Matthew 11:5

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

Acts 4:21

After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.