Haller's Concordance for THE HOLY BIBLE: Douay-Rheims: Haller's Concordance: BECAUSE

Haller's Concordance: BECAUSE

And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Gen. 2:3
And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Gen. 2:23
And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. Gen. 3:10
And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. Gen. 3:14
And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. Gen. 3:17
And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. Gen. 3:20
And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him. Gen. 5:24
And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. Gen. 6:3
And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Gen. 7:7
And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name Jectan. Gen. 10:25
And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries. Gen. 11:9
And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. Gen. 16:11
Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations. Gen. 17:5
The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant. Gen. 17:14
I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof. Gen. 19:8
For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them. Gen. 19:13
So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest. Gen. 19:14
And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him. Gen. 19:16
Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die. Gen. 19:19
Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor. Gen. 19:22
But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed. Gen. 21:13
Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear. Gen. 21:31
By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake: Gen. 22:16
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. Gen. 22:18
Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master. Gen. 24:56
And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive. Gen. 25:21
Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob. Gen. 25:28
Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws. Gen. 26:5
And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty. Gen. 26:7
And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him, Gen. 27:23
And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live. Gen. 27:46
He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have. Gen. 29:15
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love. Gen. 29:20
And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon. Gen. 29:33
And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi. Gen. 29:34
And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night. Gen. 30:16
And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar. Gen. 30:18
And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon. Gen. 30:20
She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain. Gen. 31:35
Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob's thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank. Gen. 32:32
Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter. Gen. 34:7
Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours. Gen. 37:3
And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing: Gen. 38:10
And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him. Gen. 38:14
But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more. Gen. 38:26
And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us. Gen. 42:21
And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter. Gen. 42:23
And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded the steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and kill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at noon. Gen. 43:16
And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because of the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are brought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by violence make slaves of us and our asses. Gen. 43:18
And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept. Gen. 43:30
And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because I have seen thy face, and leave thee alive. Gen. 46:30
You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination. Gen. 46:34
We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for the flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen. Gen. 47:4
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his possessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it into Pharao's hands: Gen. 47:20
Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch. Gen. 49:4
Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall. Gen. 49:6
Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. Gen. 49:7
And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses. Ex. 1:21
And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water. Ex. 2:10
Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. Ex. 2:23
And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works; Ex. 3:7
And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision. Ex. 4:26
And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day. Ex. 5:19
And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us. Ex. 5:21
The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled; Ex. 9:31
But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward. Ex. 9:32
And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand. Ex. 13:16
And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you. Ex. 13:19
And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness. Ex. 15:23
And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field. Ex. 16:25
And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not? Ex. 17:7
Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation. Ex. 17:16
And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians. Ex. 18:9
Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them. Ex. 18:11
And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible. Ex. 19:18
But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money. Ex. 21:21
For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate. Ex. 22:27
Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked. Ex. 23:7
But the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin. Ex. 29:14
Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat that covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because it is the ram of consecration: Ex. 29:22
And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the Lord, because it is his oblation. Ex. 29:25
Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall to Aaron's share, and his sons', by a perpetual right from the children of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of their peace victims which they offer to the Lord. Ex. 29:28
That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy. Ex. 29:33
And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread, till the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: they shall not be eaten, because they are sanctified. Ex. 29:34
The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you. Ex. 30:32
You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord. Ex. 30:37
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you. Ex. 31:13
That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I destroy thee in the way. Ex. 33:3
Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too much. Ex. 36:7
Pouring oil upon it and putting on frankincense, because it is the oblation of the Lord. Lev. 2:15
But the calf itself he shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn it as he did the former calf: because it is for the sin of the multitude. Lev. 4:21
And he shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and when he hath immolated it in the place where the holocaust is wont to be slain before the Lord, because it is for sin, Lev. 4:24
¤ If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity. Lev. 5:1
And of its blood he shall sprinkle the side of the altar: and whatever is left, he shall let it drop at the bottom thereof, because it is for sin. Lev. 5:9
And if his hand be not able to offer two turtles, or two young pigeons, he shall offer for his sin the tenth part of an ephi of flour. He shall not put oil upon it, nor put any frankincense thereon, because it is for sin. Lev. 5:11
He shall offer of the flocks a ram without blemish to the priest, according to the measure and estimation of the sin. And the priest shall pray for him, because he did it ignorantly: And it shall be forgiven him, Lev. 5:18
Because by mistake he trespassed against the Lord. Lev. 5:19
And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass. Lev. 6:17
Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies. Lev. 6:29
Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy. Lev. 7:6
Having first washed the entrails, and the feet, and the whole ram together he burnt upon the altar: because it was a holocaust of most sweet odour to the Lord, as he had commanded him. Lev. 8:21
He took them again from their hands, and burnt them upon the altar of holocaust: because it was the oblation of consecration, for a sweet odour of sacrifice to the Lord. Lev. 8:28
You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations: Lev. 10:9
And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is holy of holies. Lev. 10:12
Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded. Lev. 10:15
The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you. Lev. 11:8
And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are unclean to you. Lev. 11:28
Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable. Lev. 11:42
For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth. Lev. 11:44
You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth: Lev. 11:46
And on the seventh day, he shall look on him. If the leprosy be somewhat obscure, and not spread in the skin, he shall declare him clean, because it is but a scab: and the man shall wash his clothes, and shall be clean. Lev. 13:6
It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and grown into the skin. The priest therefore shall declare him unclean: and shall not shut him up, because he is evidently unclean. Lev. 13:11
The priest shall view him, and shall judge that the leprosy which he has is very clean: because it is all turned into whiteness, and therefore the man shall be clean. Lev. 13:13
The priest shall view it, and if he see it turned white, and the place thereof is lower than the other skin: he shall declare him unclean, because the evil of leprosy is broken out in the scar. Lev. 13:25
But if the whiteness stay in its place, and be not very clear, it is the sore of a burning: and therefore he shall be cleansed, because it is only the scar of a burning. Lev. 13:28
And if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair yellow, and thinner than usual: he shall declare them unclean, because it is the leprosy of the head and the beard; Lev. 13:30
He shall seek no more whether the hair be turned yellow, because he is evidently unclean. Lev. 13:36
Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul. Lev. 17:11
For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore I said to the children of Israel: you shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off. Lev. 17:14
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter: because it is thy own nakedness. Lev. 18:10
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: because she is the flesh of thy father. Lev. 18:12
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's flesh. Lev. 18:13
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame. Lev. 18:15
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother. Lev. 18:16
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest. Lev. 18:17
Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination. Lev. 18:22
Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime. Lev. 18:23
Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy. Lev. 19:2
And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy thing of the Lord. And that soul shall perish from among his people. Lev. 19:8
Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord. Lev. 19:14
If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman. Lev. 19:20
And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name. Lev. 20:3
Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God. Lev. 20:7
If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because they have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them. Lev. 20:12
If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity. Lev. 20:17
You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine. Lev. 20:26
They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God, Lev. 21:7
And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them. Lev. 21:8
Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord. Lev. 21:12
Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them. Lev. 21:23
And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is his meat. Lev. 22:7
you shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a stranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all corrupted, and defiled. You shall not receive them. Lev. 22:25
Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations. Lev. 23:3
You shall do no servile work in the time of this day: because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you. Lev. 23:28
And they shall be Aaron's and his sons', that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right. Lev. 24:9
Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God. Lev. 24:22
Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines, Lev. 25:11
Because of the sanctification of the jubilee. But as they grow you shall presently eat them. Lev. 25:12
Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord your God. Lev. 25:17
The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me. Lev. 25:23
If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel. Lev. 25:33
But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession. Lev. 25:34
In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein. Lev. 26:35
Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws. Lev. 26:43
Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery: Num. 5:13
He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery. Num. 5:15
Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because the consecration of his God is upon his head. Num. 6:7
And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be made void, because his sanctification was profaned. Num. 6:12
But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders. Num. 7:9
But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not make the phase, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, because he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in due season: he shall bear his sin. Num. 9:13
I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me. Num. 11:14
But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt? Num. 11:20
¤ And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian, Num. 12:1
Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes. Num. 13:24
But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we. Num. 13:31
The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you. Num. 14:43
And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their Ignorance: Num. 15:25
And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of all the people through ignorance. Num. 15:26
And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly before the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be forgiven him. Num. 15:28
But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people: Num. 15:30
Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are sanctified Num. 16:37
In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial. Num. 16:38
Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee. Num. 18:10
But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord. Num. 18:17
And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony. Num. 18:31
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and shall pour them forth without the camp in a most clean place, that they may be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a water of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin. Num. 19:9
Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not sprinkled with this mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord, and shall perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him. Num. 19:13
If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification. Num. 19:20
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land, which I will give them. Num. 20:12
Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction. Num. 20:24
Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Num. 21:7
Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed. Num. 22:6
And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed. Num. 22:12
And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you. Num. 22:13
Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served me ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee. Num. 22:29
And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me: Num. 22:32
And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy coming? Num. 22:37
Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal. Num. 25:11
And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel. Num. 25:13
Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor. Num. 25:18
Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father. Num. 27:3
Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin. Num. 27:14
¤ The first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and holy unto you; you shall do no servile work therein, because it is the day of the sounding and of trumpets. Num. 29:1
But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it. Num. 30:5
But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful to her. Num. 30:12
But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace. Num. 30:14
And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord. Num. 31:29
If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me, Num. 32:11
Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east side thereof, Num. 32:19
There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it. Dt. 1:17
And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe: Dt. 1:23
Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath followed the Lord. Dt. 1:36
Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession. Dt. 2:5
And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession. Dt. 2:9
And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession. Dt. 2:19
And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest. Dt. 2:30
And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon. Dt. 3:2
Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. Dt. 4:24
Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers. Dt. 4:31
Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power, Dt. 4:37
Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth. Dt. 6:15
Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth. Dt. 7:6
Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people: Dt. 7:7
But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt. Dt. 7:8
Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible: Dt. 7:21
Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. Dt. 7:25
Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema. Dt. 7:26
For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Dt. 9:5
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him. Dt. 10:9
Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes. Dt. 10:17
And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. Dt. 10:19
And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. Dt. 13:5
With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage: Dt. 13:10
Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth. Dt. 14:2
But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you. Dt. 14:7
The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. Dt. 14:8
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean. Dt. 14:10
But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam. Dt. 14:21
And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession. Dt. 14:27
Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord. Dt. 15:2
But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee: Dt. 15:16
Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them free: because he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that thou dost. Dt. 15:18
¤ Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night. Dt. 16:1
Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life. Dt. 16:3
Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work. Dt. 16:8
¤ The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations, Dt. 18:1
Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain. Dt. 19:6
¤ If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and chariots, and the numbers of the enemy's army greater than thine, thou shalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Dt. 20:1
Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight for you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger. Dt. 20:4
But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her. Dt. 21:14
And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her, Dt. 22:16
Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. Dt. 22:19
They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. Dt. 22:21
Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee. Dt. 22:24
He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life. Dt. 22:29
Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee. Dt. 23:4
And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee. Dt. 23:5
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. Dt. 23:7
Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God. Dt. 23:18
When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin. Dt. 23:21
The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess. Dt. 24:4
But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin. Dt. 24:15
Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all. Dt. 28:38
Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms. Dt. 28:39
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity. Dt. 28:41
And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee. Dt. 28:45
Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: Dt. 28:47
So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates. Dt. 28:55
And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God. Dt. 28:62
And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt: Dt. 29:25
And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me. Dt. 31:17
But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods. Dt. 31:18
Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God. Dt. 32:3
The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. Dt. 32:19
How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? Dt. 32:30
Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel. Dt. 32:51
And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel obeyed him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses. Dt. 34:9
Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to. Josu. 1:9
But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's house, and all she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day: because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At that time, Josue made an imprecation, saying: Josu. 6:25
Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness. Josu. 7:12
And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel. Josu. 7:15
Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire. Josu. 7:25
And they slew them not, because the princes of the multitude had sworn in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the common people murmured against the princes. Josu. 9:18
Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel. Josu. 10:4
But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: because the Lord the God of Israel himself is their possession, as he spoke to them. Josu. 13:33
And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which thy foot hath trodden upon shall be thy possession, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast followed the Lord my God. Josu. 14:9
And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, until this present day: because he followed the Lord the God of Israel. Josu. 14:14
And Josue said to them: If thou be a great people, go up into the woodland, and cut down room for thyself in the land of the Pherezite and the Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is too narrow for thee. Josu. 17:15
In the possession and lot of the children of Juda: because it was too great, and therefore the children of Simeon had their possession in the midst of their inheritance. Josu. 19:9
And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not deliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and is not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before, Josu. 20:5
And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar said to them: Now we know that the Lord is with us, because you are not guilty of this revolt, and you have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of the Lord. Josu. 22:31
One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised. Josu. 23:10
And the Lord was with Juda, and he possessed the hill country: but was not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they had many chariots armed with scythes. Judg. 1:19
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: who strengthened against them Eglon, king of Moab: because they did evil in his sight. Judg. 3:12
She said to him: I will go, indeed, with thee, but at this time the victory shall not be attributed to thee, because Sisara shall be delivered into the hand of a woman. Debbora therefore arose, and went with Barac to Cedes. Judg. 4:9
Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to help his most valiant men. Judg. 5:23
And they said to Joas: Bring out thy son hither, that he may die: because he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath cut down his grove. Judg. 6:30
From that day Gedeon was called Jerobaal, because Joas had said: Let Baal revenge himself on him that hath cast down his altar. Judg. 6:32
The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the camp: because I have delivered them into thy hand. Judg. 7:9
And Zebee and Salmana said: Do thou rise and run upon us: because the strength of a man is according to his age: Gedeon rose up, and slew Zebee and Salmana: and he took the ornaments and bosses, with which the necks of the camels of kings are wont to be adorned. Judg. 8:21
And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and thy son, and thy son's son: because thou hast delivered us from the hand of Madian. Judg. 8:22
And you are now risen up against my father's house, and have killed his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the inhabitants of Sichem, because he is your brother: Judg. 9:18
And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim. Judg. 10:10
Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had sons: who, after they were grown up, thrust out Jephte, saying: Thou canst not inherit in the house of our father, because thou art born of another mother. Judg. 11:2
And he answered them: Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the confines of the Arnon unto the Jaboc and the Jordan: now, therefore, restore the same peaceably to me. Judg. 11:13
Then calling to him all the men of Galaad, he fought against Ephraim: and the men of Galaad defeated Ephraim, because he had said: Galaad is a fugitive of Ephraim, and dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim and Manasses. Judg. 12:4
Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall touch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines. Judg. 13:5
And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God. Judg. 13:22
Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson, the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father. Judg. 15:6
There being no man at all who brought them any succour, because they dwelt far from Sidon, and had no society or business with any man. And the city was in the land of Rohob: and they rebuilt it, and dwelt therein, Judg. 18:28
And the old man went out to them, and said: Do not so, my brethren, do not so wickedly: because this man is come into my lodging, and cease I pray you from this folly. Judg. 19:23
And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the parts into all the borders of your possession: because there never was so heinous a crime, and so great an abomination committed in Israel. Judg. 20:6
And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman. Ruth 2:20
And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy latter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not followed young men either poor or rich. Ruth 3:10
But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb. 1 Ki. 1:5
And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord. 1 Ki. 1:20
¤ My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation. 1 Ki. 2:1
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength. 1 Ki. 2:9
Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord. 1 Ki. 2:17
If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them. 1 Ki. 2:25
For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for ever, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did not chastise them. 1 Ki. 3:13
And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and for her husband: 1 Ki. 4:21
And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken. 1 Ki. 4:22
But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten the people with a great slaughter. 1 Ki. 6:19
And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king. 1 Ki. 8:18
As soon as you come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat till he come; because he blesseth the victim, and afterwards they eat that are invited. Now, therefore, go up, for to day you shall find him. 1 Ki. 9:13
To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me. 1 Ki. 9:16
And as for the asses, which were lost three days ago, be not solicitous, because they are found. And for whom shall be all the best things of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all thy father's house? 1 Ki. 9:20
And the cook took up the shoulder, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said: Behold what is left, set it before thee, and eat; because it was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited the people. And Saul ate with Samuel that day. 1 Ki. 9:24
And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day: because the Lord this day hath wrought salvation in Israel: 1 Ki. 11:13
But afterwards they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Astaroth: but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. 1 Ki. 12:10
And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain. 1 Ki. 12:21
And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people. 1 Ki. 12:22
And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul answered: Because I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come according to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered together in Machmas, 1 Ki. 13:11
But thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a man according to his own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded to be prince over his people, because thou hast not observed that which the Lord commanded. 1 Ki. 13:14
And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord will do for us: because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, or by few. 1 Ki. 14:6
But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us. 1 Ki. 14:10
And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey: 1 Ki. 14:29
Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king. 1 Ki. 15:23
And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice. 1 Ki. 15:24
And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because thou hath rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel. 1 Ki. 15:26
And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made him king over Israel. 1 Ki. 15:35
And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart. 1 Ki. 16:7
And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul himself. 1 Ki. 18:12
And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and said to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he hath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee. 1 Ki. 19:4
And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee. 1 Ki. 19:17
If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: David asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because there are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe. 1 Ki. 20:6
And Jonathan swore again to David, because he loved him: for he loved him as his own soul. 1 Ki. 20:17
If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of thee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee, and there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to the boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord hath sent thee away. 1 Ki. 20:22
So Jonathan rose from the table in great anger, and did not eat bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was grieved for David, because his father had put him to confusion. 1 Ki. 20:34
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day. 1 Ki. 22:8
And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord. 1 Ki. 22:17
After which David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the hem of Saul's robe. 1 Ki. 24:5
And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed. 1 Ki. 24:6
Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed. 1 Ki. 24:10
Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life. 1 Ki. 25:28
And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my son David, for I will no more do thee harm, because my life hath been precious in thy eyes this day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, and have been ignorant in very many things. 1 Ki. 26:21
Because thou didst not obey the voice of the Lord, neither didst thou execute the wrath of his indignation upon Amalec. Therefore hath the Lord done to thee what thou sufferest this day. 1 Ki. 28:18
And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong; or whence dost thou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master left me, because I began to be sick three days ago. 1 Ki. 30:13
Then all the wicked and unjust men, that had gone with David, answering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them any thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take his wife, and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way. 1 Ki. 30:22
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword. 2 Ki. 1:12
And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing. 2 Ki. 2:6
And he could not answer him a word, because he feared him. 2 Ki. 3:11
Now then do it: because the Lord hath spoken to David, saying: By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hands of the Philistines, and of all their enemies. 2 Ki. 3:18
So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle. 2 Ki. 3:30
And when they came to the floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and made it lean aside. 2 Ki. 6:6
And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the name of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day. 2 Ki. 6:8
And it was told king David, that the Lord had blessed Obededom, and all that he had, because of the ark of God. So David went, and brought away the ark of God out of the house of Obededom into the city of David with joy. And there were with David seven choirs, and calves for victims. 2 Ki. 6:12
And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in thy heart: because the Lord is with thee. 2 Ki. 7:3
Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none like to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things that we have heard with our ears. 2 Ki. 7:22
Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee. 2 Ki. 7:27
And now begin, and bless the house of thy servant, that it may endure for ever before thee: because thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it, and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever. 2 Ki. 7:29
And Thou sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to congratulate with him, and to return him thanks: because he had fought against Adarezer, and had defeated him. For Thou was an enemy to Adarezer, and in his hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver, and vessels of brass: 2 Ki. 8:10
But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem: because he ate always of the king's table: and he was lame of both feet. 2 Ki. 9:13
He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and had no pity. 2 Ki. 12:6
Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to be thy wife. 2 Ki. 12:10
Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall surely die. 2 Ki. 12:14
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him. 2 Ki. 12:25
And when king David heard of these things he was exceedingly grieved: and he would not afflict the spirit of his son Ammon, for he loved him, because he was his firstborn. 2 Ki. 13:21
But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar. 2 Ki. 13:22
And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he was comforted concerning the death of Ammon. 2 Ki. 13:39
And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year, because his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred sicles, according to the common weight. 2 Ki. 14:26
Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity. 2 Ki. 15:20
The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood of the house of Saul: because thou hast usurped the kingdom in his stead, and the Lord hath given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold thy evils press upon thee, because thou art a man of blood. 2 Ki. 16:8
And Joab said to him: Thou shalt not be the messenger this day, but shalt bear tidings another day: this day I will not have thee bear tidings, because the king's son is dead. 2 Ki. 18:20
But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for these words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed? 2 Ki. 19:21
And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the king is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten any thing of the king's, or have any gifts been given us? 2 Ki. 19:42
¤ And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slew the Gabaonites. 2 Ki. 21:1
And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. 2 Ki. 21:7
The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them. 2 Ki. 22:8
And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me, because I pleased him. 2 Ki. 22:20
Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 2 Ki. 22:22
But David's heart struck him, after the people were numbered: and David said to the Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have done: but I pray thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity of thy servant, because I have done exceeding foolishly. 2 Ki. 24:10
Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias: 3 Ki. 1:25
While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, the priest, came: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man, and bringest good news. 3 Ki. 1:42
Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to the camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with the sword: 3 Ki. 2:8
And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to Anathoth, to thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the Lord God before David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the troubles my father endured. 3 Ki. 2:26
And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar. 3 Ki. 2:28
And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda; 3 Ki. 2:32
And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern judgment; 3 Ki. 3:11
Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet. 3 Ki. 5:3
And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord. 3 Ki. 8:11
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy altar, to thy house, 3 Ki. 8:31
If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies (because they will sin against thee) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name, shall come and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house: 3 Ki. 8:33
If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions: 3 Ki. 8:35
In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was before the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings. 3 Ki. 8:64
And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil. 3 Ki. 9:9
Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice. 3 Ki. 10:9
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice; 3 Ki. 11:9
The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded thee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy servant. 3 Ki. 11:11
Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did David, his father. 3 Ki. 11:33
Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest. 3 Ki. 13:17
And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee, 3 Ki. 13:21
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 3 Ki. 14:13
And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord. 3 Ki. 14:15
Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite. 3 Ki. 15:5
Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and wherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence wherewith he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel. 3 Ki. 15:30
As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found. 3 Ki. 18:10
Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock and dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your gods; but put no fire under. 3 Ki. 18:25
With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away. 3 Ki. 19:14
(And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.) 3 Ki. 20:28
Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and slew him. 3 Ki. 20:36
And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people. 3 Ki. 20:42
And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. 3 Ki. 21:2
And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the word that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread. 3 Ki. 21:4
And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord. 3 Ki. 21:20
Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because he hath humbled himself, for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. 3 Ki. 21:29
But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die. 4 Ki. 1:6
And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent messengers to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there were not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word; therefore, from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. 4 Ki. 1:16
So he died, according to the word of the Lord, which Elias spoke; and Joram, his brother, reigned in his stead, in the second year of Joram, the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had no son. 4 Ki. 1:17
And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come down to Bethel, 4 Ki. 2:2
And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come to Jericho, 4 Ki. 2:4
And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as the Jordan. And he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on together. 4 Ki. 2:6
And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses that are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole multitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and see. 4 Ki. 7:13
And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up their pregnant women. 4 Ki. 8:12
And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians had wounded him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king of Syria And Ochozias, the son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to visit Joram, the son of Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there. 4 Ki. 8:29
And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king's daughter. 4 Ki. 9:34
And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou hast diligently executed that which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation. 4 Ki. 10:30
But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests. 4 Ki. 12:16
But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them: 4 Ki. 13:4
And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of his covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and he would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this present time. 4 Ki. 13:23
Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the borders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he slew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up. 4 Ki. 15:16
The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the temple, and the king's entry from without, he turned into the temple of the Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians. 4 Ki. 16:18
And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner. 4 Ki. 17:8
And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The nations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 4 Ki. 17:26
Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded, they would not hear, nor do. 4 Ki. 18:12
Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings: 4 Ki. 21:11
Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day. 4 Ki. 21:15
Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Juda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us. 4 Ki. 22:13
Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my indignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. 4 Ki. 22:17
But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him. 4 Ki. 23:26
And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided; and the name of his brother was Jectan. 1 Par. 1:19
And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow. 1 Par. 4:9
And these whose names are written above, came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the inhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat pastures. 1 Par. 4:41
Gave them help. And the Agarites were delivered into their hands, and all that were with them, because they called upon God in the battle: and he heard them, because they had put their faith in him. 1 Par. 5:20
And his son Suthala, and his son Ezer, and Elad: and the men of Geth born in the land slew them, because they came down to invade their possessions. 1 Par. 7:21
And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house: 1 Par. 7:23
So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the commandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and moreover consulted also a witch, 1 Par. 10:13
And there were some of Manasses that went over to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to fight: but he did not fight with them: because the lords of the Philistines taking counsel sent him back, saying: With the danger of our heads he will return to his master Saul. 1 Par. 12:19
And the Lord was angry with Oza, and struck him, because he had touched the ark; and he died there before the Lord. 1 Par. 13:10
And David was troubled because the Lord had divided Oza: and he called that place the Breach of Oza to this day. 1 Par. 13:11
Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not present, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing against the law. 1 Par. 15:13
Then shall the trees of the wood give praise before the Lord: because he is come to judge the earth. 1 Par. 16:33
And after him Heman, and Idithun, and the rest that were chosen, every one by his name to give praise to the Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever. 1 Par. 16:41
But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. 1 Par. 27:23
Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not: because upon this there fell wrath upon Israel: and therefore the number of them that were numbered, was not registered in the chronicles of king David. 1 Par. 27:24
And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name: because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood. 1 Par. 28:3
And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy. 1 Par. 29:9
And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the lives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked wisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have made thee king, 2 Par. 1:11
And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because the Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee king over them. 2 Par. 2:11
Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because they were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man were a little outward, he could not see them. So the ark has been there unto this day. 2 Par. 5:9
Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord, because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord. 2 Par. 7:2
Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the Lord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Par. 7:3
And the priests stood in their offices: and the Levites with the instruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to praise the Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the hymns of David by their ministry: and the priests sounded with trumpets before them, and all Israel stood. 2 Par. 7:6
Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple of the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not hold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat: 2 Par. 7:7
And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days. 2 Par. 7:9
And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these evils are come upon them. 2 Par. 7:22
And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it. 2 Par. 8:11
Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on his throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and will preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them, to do judgment and justice. 2 Par. 9:8
Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over to Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off, from executing the priestly office to the Lord. 2 Par. 11:14
Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all the countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities: and he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives. 2 Par. 11:23
And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord) 2 Par. 12:2
And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac. 2 Par. 12:7
But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord turned away from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda there were found good works. 2 Par. 12:12
And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and the children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had trusted in the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 13:18
And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and there was no hinderance in building. 2 Par. 14:7
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 2 Par. 15:2
Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron. 2 Par. 15:16
At that time Hanani the prophet came to Asa king of Juda, and said to him: Because thou hast had confidence in the king of Syria, and not in the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand. 2 Par. 16:7
Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand? 2 Par. 16:8
And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in prison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to death many of the people at that time. 2 Par. 16:10
And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim, 2 Par. 17:3
But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers. 2 Par. 19:3
And every man of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem returned, and Josaphat at their head, into Jerusalem with great joy, because the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies. 2 Par. 20:27
And Eliezer the son of Dodau of Maresa prophesied to Josaphat, saying: Because thou hast made a league with Ochozias, the Lord hath destroyed thy works, and the ships are broken, and they could not go to Tharsis. 2 Par. 20:37
And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and pensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to Joram, because he was the eldest. 2 Par. 21:3
But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the covenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever. 2 Par. 21:7
And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda, 2 Par. 21:12
And he sought for Ochozias himself, and took him lying hid in Samaria: and when he was brought to him, he killed him, and they buried him: because he was the son of Josaphat, who had sought the Lord with all his heart. And there was no more hope that any one should reign of the race of Ochozias. 2 Par. 22:9
And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because they are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches of the Lord. 2 Par. 23:6
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house. 2 Par. 24:16
And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments. 2 Par. 24:24
And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel. 2 Par. 25:16
Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord's will that he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of the gods of Edom. 2 Par. 25:20
And Azarias the high priest, and all the rest of the priests looked upon him, and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and they made haste to thrust him out. Yea himself also being frightened, hasted to go out, because he had quickly felt the stroke of the Lord. 2 Par. 26:20
And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the field of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 26:23
And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God. 2 Par. 27:6
For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 28:6
But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you. 2 Par. 28:11
And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria. 2 Par. 28:15
For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord. 2 Par. 28:19
And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry of the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing was taken suddenly. 2 Par. 29:36
For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not priests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered together to Jerusalem. 2 Par. 30:3
Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to the Lord. 2 Par. 30:17
Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him, saying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the Lord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left, because the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is this great store which thou seest. 2 Par. 31:10
And he humbled himself afterwards, because his heart had been lifted up, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and therefore the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Ezechias. 2 Par. 32:26
Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel, and Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers have not kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written in this book. 2 Par. 34:21
Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath shall fall upon this place, and shall not be quenched. 2 Par. 34:25
But as to the king of Juda that sent you to beseech the Lord, thus shall you say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Because thou hast heard the words of this book, 2 Par. 34:26
And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place. 2 Par. 36:15
And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid. 1 Esd. 3:11
But we remembering the salt that we have eaten in the palace, and because we count it a crime to see the king wronged, have therefore sent and certified the king, 1 Esd. 4:14
For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him. 1 Esd. 8:22
And there were assembled to me all that feared the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that were come from the captivity, and I sat sorrowful, until the evening sacrifice. 1 Esd. 9:4
Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain. 1 Esd. 10:9
Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach. 2 Esd. 2:17
Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders. 2 Esd. 4:5
And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine. 2 Esd. 5:3
For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son in law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to wife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias. 2 Esd. 6:18
And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength. 2 Esd. 8:10
So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had taught them. 2 Esd. 8:12
And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just. 2 Esd. 9:8
Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God. 2 Esd. 9:31
And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly. 2 Esd. 9:33
And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it. 2 Esd. 9:38
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing. 2 Esd. 13:2
But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king, and after certain days I asked the king: 2 Esd. 13:6
And because he was mindful of the Lord with all his heart, God gave him favour in the sight of Salmanasar the king. Tob. 1:13
Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead? Tob. 2:8
For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him, Tob. 2:13
And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee. Tob. 3:5
Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. Tob. 3:8
And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man, Tob. 3:19
For thou art not delighted in our being lost, because after a storm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in joyfulness. Tob. 3:22
And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon his neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the son of a good and most virtuous man. Tob. 7:7
Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock. Tob. 8:4
And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not happened as we suspected. Tob. 8:17
And said: The God of Israel bless thee, because thou art the son of a very good and just man, and that feareth God, and doth almsdeeds: Tob. 9:9
And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with him: and they began both to weep together, because their son did not return to them on the day appointed. Tob. 10:3
And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because thou hast chastised me, and thou hast saved me and behold I see Tobias my son. Tob. 11:17
Then he said to them secretly, Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you. Tob. 12:6
And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. Tob. 12:13
Because he hath therefore scattered you among the Gentiles, who know not him, that you may declare his wonderful works, and make them know that there is no other almighty God besides him. Tob. 13:4
As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because he hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation, Tob. 13:7
But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, because they shall all be blessed, and shall be gathered together to the Lord. Tob. 13:17
My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the Lord our God hath delivered Jerusalem his city from all her troubles. Tob. 13:19
They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans. Jud. 5:7
Now therefore, my lord, search if there be any iniquity of theirs in the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will surely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke of thy power: Jud. 5:24
But if there be no offence of this people in the sight of their God, we cannot resist them because their God will defend them: and we shall be a reproach to the whole earth. Jud. 5:25
Because thou hast prophesied unto us, saying: That the nation of Israel is defended by their God, to shew thee that there is no God, but Nabuchodonosor: Jud. 6:2
Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them without joining battle, set guards at the springs that they may not draw water out of them, and thou shalt destroy them without sword, or at least being wearied out they will yield up their city, which they suppose, because it is situate in the mountains, to be impregnable. Jud. 7:9
Have thou mercy on us, because thou art good, or punish our iniquities by chastising us thyself, and deliver not them that trust in thee to a people that knoweth not thee, Jud. 7:20
And she was greatly renowned among all, because she feared the Lord very much, neither was there any one that spoke an ill word of her. Jud. 8:8
And the Lord also gave her more beauty: because all this dressing up did not proceed from sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the Lord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men's eyes incomparably lovely. Jud. 10:4
And she answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews, and I am fled from them, because I knew they would be made a prey to you, because they despised you, and would not of their own accord yield themselves, that they might find mercy in your sight. Jud. 10:12
And because the children of Israel know they have offended their God, thy dread is upon them. Jud. 11:9
And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God forbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed to make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought not to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things, it is certain they will be given up to destruction. Jud. 11:12
Because these things are told me by the providence of God. Jud. 11:16
And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very things to thee. Jud. 11:17
And because thy promise is good, if thy God shall do this for me, he shall also be my God, and thou shalt be great in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned through all the earth. Jud. 11:21
And Judith said: I will drink my lord, because my life is magnified this day above all my days. Jud. 12:18
Give all of you glory to him, because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever. Jud. 13:21
And they all adored the Lord, and said to her: The Lord hath blessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies to nought. Jud. 13:22
Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God. Jud. 13:25
And because the Assyrians were not united together, they went without order in their flight; but the children of Israel pursuing in one body, defeated all that they could find. Jud. 15:4
For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart has been strengthened, because thou hast loved chastity, and after thy husband hast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath strengthened thee, and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever. Jud. 15:11
Let all thy creatures serve thee: because thou hast spoken, and they were made: thou didst send forth thy spirit, and they were created, and there is no one that can resist thy voice. Jud. 16:17
But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite was in great honour with the king, and sought to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the two eunuchs of the king who were put to death. Esther 12:6
Remember, (said he,) the days of thy low estate, how thou wast brought up by my hand, because Aman the second after the king hath spoken against us unto death. Esther 15:2
He sent word to Esther again, saying: Think not that thou mayst save thy life only, because thou art in the king's house, more than all the Jews: Esther 4:13
And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance. Esther 13:15
And all Israel with like mind and supplication cried to the Lord, because they saw certain death hanging over their heads. Esther 13:18
And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the Jew: I have given Aman's house to Esther, and I have commanded him to be hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews. Esther 8:7
Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, and that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they should send one to another portions of meats, and should give gifts to the poor. Esther 9:22
And since that time these days are called Phurim, that is, of lots: because Phur, that is, the lot, was cast into the urn. And all things that were done, are contained in the volume of this epistle, that is, of this book: Esther 9:26
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. Job 3:10
From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever. Job 4:20
They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame. Job 6:20
He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person. Job 13:10
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. Job 19:21
Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. Job 20:19
Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me. Job 21:16
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath. Job 21:30
For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face. Job 23:17
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. Job 29:12
If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. Job 31:25
¤ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself. Job 32:1
And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God. Job 32:2
And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a reasonable answer, but only had condemned Job. Job 32:3
So Eliu waited while Job was speaking because they were his elders that were speaking. Job 32:4
Therefore because I have waited, and they have not spoken: they stood, and answered no more: Job 32:16
Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy. Job 33:10
Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words? Job 33:13
Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee? for thou begannest to speak, and not I: but if thou know any thing better, speak. Job 34:33
Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast in the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches. Job 34:37
There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men. Job 35:12
He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent. Job 36:9
Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat? Job 38:41
And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath. Job 42:7
I have slept and have taken my rest: and I have risen up, because the Lord hath protected me. Ps. 3:5
In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity. Ps. 5:4
Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight. Ps. 5:8
Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger. Ps. 8:2
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption. Ps. 16:10
The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them. Ps. 18:7
And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me. Ps. 18:19
Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God. Ps. 18:21
Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me. Ps. 22:24
The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee. Ps. 25:21
Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies. Ps. 27:11
Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up. Ps. 28:5
Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. Ps. 32:3
Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke. Ps. 37:20
And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him. Ps. 37:40
There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins. Ps. 38:3
My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness. Ps. 38:5
They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness. Ps. 38:20
I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it. Ps. 39:9
By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me. Ps. 41:11
For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them. Ps. 44:3
Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Ps. 44:22
With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously, and reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully. Ps. 45:4
Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord. Ps. 48:11
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints. Ps. 52:9
They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them. Ps. 53:5
I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good: Ps. 54:6
Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living. Ps. 56:13
Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings: Ps. 63:7
But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things. Ps. 63:11
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. Ps. 69:7
Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies. Ps. 69:18
Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. Ps. 69:26
My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning, Ps. 71:15
Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. Ps. 73:3
Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people? Ps. 78:20
Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation. Ps. 78:22
Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place. Ps. 79:7
I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me. Ps. 86:7
Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me. Ps. 86:17
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery. Ps. 88:18
Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge. Ps. 91:9
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name. Ps. 91:14
before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth. Ps. 96:13
Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord. Ps. 97:8
¤ Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, and his arm is holy. Ps. 98:1
At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity. Ps. 98:9
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. Ps. 102:4
Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down. Ps. 102:10
Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. Ps. 102:19
Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham. Ps. 105:42
Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips. Ps. 106:33
Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High: Ps. 107:11
Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars. Ps. 107:16
And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for. Ps. 107:30
because he remembered not to shew mercy, Ps. 109:16
But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me, Ps. 109:21
Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors. Ps. 109:31
Because he shall not be moved for ever. Ps. 112:6
¤ I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. Ps. 116:1
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. Ps. 116:2
I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation. Ps. 118:21
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. Ps. 118:28
Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies. Ps. 119:22
And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments. Ps. 119:45
This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me. Ps. 119:50
A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Ps. 119:53
This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications. Ps. 119:56
They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad : because I have greatly hoped in thy words. Ps. 119:74
Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments. Ps. 119:78
I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation. Ps. 119:99
I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments. Ps. 119:100
I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law. Ps. 119:102
I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart. Ps. 119:111
I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy commandments. Ps. 119:131
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. Ps. 119:136
My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words. Ps. 119:139
I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped. Ps. 119:147
Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications. Ps. 119:155
I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word. Ps. 119:158
I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight. Ps. 119:168
My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice. Ps. 119:172
I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments. Ps. 119:176
Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David. Ps. 122:5
Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee. Ps. 122:9
Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful redemption. Ps. 130:7
Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain. Ps. 139:20
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies? Ps. 139:21
¤ Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise. Ps. 147:1
Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee. Ps. 147:13
Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded. Pr. 1:24
Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord, Pr. 1:29
Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. Pr. 2:6
Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life. Pr. 4:13
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it. Pr. 4:23
He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived. Pr. 5:23
Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend: Pr. 6:3
Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: Pr. 6:23
Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge, Pr. 6:34
Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver. Pr. 16:16
The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it. Pr. 16:26
Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him. Pr. 20:4
The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment. Pr. 21:7
The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness. Pr. 21:27
Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate: Pr. 22:22
Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul. Pr. 22:23
Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven. Pr. 23:5
Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee. Pr. 23:7
Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech. Pr. 23:9
Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away. Pr. 23:18
Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags. Pr. 23:21
Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits. Pr. 24:2
Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels. Pr. 24:6
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat. Pr. 24:13
When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart. Pr. 26:25
A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer. Pr. 29:19
Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth: Pr. 31:4
Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour. Eccl. 1:18
Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty. Eccl. 4:14
For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight. Eccl. 5:20
Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected. Eccl. 7:3
Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger. Eccl. 8:7
For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear. Eccl. 8:11
Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun. Eccl. 8:15
But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth. Eccl. 9:2
Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God. Eccl. 9:7
If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease. Eccl. 10:4
Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said. Eccl. 10:20
And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street. Eccl. 12:5
Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept. Cant. 1:6
Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love. Cant. 2:5
All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man's sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night. Cant. 3:8
But the wicked with works and words have called it to them: and esteeming it a friend, have fallen away and have made a covenant with it: because they are worthy to be of the part thereof. Wis. 1:16
Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life. Wis. 2:12
Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself. Wis. 3:5
¤ O How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men. Wis. 4:1
Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God. Wis. 6:5
And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise: Wis. 7:15
But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance: Wis. 11:16
But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance. Wis. 11:24
But thou sparest all: because they are thine, O Lord, who lovest souls. Wis. 11:27
Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices, Wis. 12:4
For thy power is the beginning of justice: and because thou art Lord of all, thou makest thyself gracious to all. Wis. 12:16
But thou hast taught thy people by such works, that they must be just and humane, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: because in judging, thou givest place for repentance for sins. Wis. 12:19
But the idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he because he made it; and it because being frail it is called a god. Wis. 14:8
Therefore there shall be no respect had even to the idols of the Gentiles: because the creatures of God are turned to an abomination, and a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise. Wis. 14:11
And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an express image of the king, whom they had a mind to honour: that by this their diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent. Wis. 14:17
But for both these things they shall be justly punished, because they have thought not well of God, giving heed to idols, and have sworn unjustly, in guile despising justice. Wis. 14:30
For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never. Wis. 15:17
For the bitings of locusts, and of flies, killed them, and there was found no remedy for their life: because they were worthy to be destroyed by such things. Wis. 16:9
¤ But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee: Wis. 18:1
And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference. Wis. 18:2
Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly, and thy heart is full of guile and deceit. Sir. 1:40
He that feareth God, shall likewise have good friendship: because according to him shall his friend be. Sir. 6:17
A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. Sir. 10:8
There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels. Sir. 10:10
Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. Sir. 10:15
For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil. Sir. 17:29
There is one that holdeth his peace, because he knoweth not what to say: and there is another that holdeth his peace, knowing the proper time. Sir. 20:6
There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate. Sir. 20:11
And he shall be in disgrace with all men, because he understood not the fear of the Lord. Sir. 23:31
Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded. Sir. 27:22
Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his poverty. Sir. 29:12
If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him. Sir. 33:31
For all these things are to be done because of the commandment of God. Sir. 35:7
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach. Sir. 41:10
And he was known to be faithful in his words, because he saw the God of light: Sir. 46:18
For if he do them, he shall be strong to do all things: because the light of God guideth his steps. Sir. 50:31
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Isa. 1:20
For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children. Isa. 2:6
Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled. Isa. 2:12
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty. Isa. 3:8
And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: Isa. 3:16
Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst. Isa. 5:13
And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts. Isa. 6:5
Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: Isa. 7:5
Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us. Isa. 8:10
Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation. Isa. 12:2
¤ The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent. Isa. 15:1
Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed. Isa. 17:10
In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall be amazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move over it. Isa. 19:16
And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt: everyone that shall remember it shall tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined concerning it. Isa. 19:17
It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver them. Isa. 19:20
In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it. Isa. 22:25
And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant. Isa. 24:5
Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall. Isa. 25:4
The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee. Isa. 26:3
Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear. Isa. 28:19
Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have leaned upon it: Isa. 30:12
Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. Isa. 30:18
¤ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses, and putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many: and in horsemen, because they are very strong: and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord. Isa. 31:1
Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass through it. Isa. 33:21
The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: Isa. 40:7
The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen. Isa. 43:20
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters. Isa. 47:9
Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee. Isa. 49:7
Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor ones. Isa. 49:13
Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst. Isa. 50:2
He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. Isa. 53:7
He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him. Isa. 53:8
And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his mouth. Isa. 53:9
Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities. Isa. 53:11
Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors. Isa. 53:12
Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou shalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood. Isa. 54:4
Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee. Isa. 55:5
¤ The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. Isa. 57:1
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make. Isa. 57:16
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in. Isa. 59:14
And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment. Isa. 59:15
And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice supported him. Isa. 59:16
For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the beginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. Isa. 60:9
Because thou wast forsaken, and hated, and there was none that passed through thee, I will make thee to be an everlasting glory, a joy unto generation and generation: Isa. 60:15
¤ The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up. Isa. 61:1
Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhabited. Isa. 62:4
That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day. Isa. 65:5
Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole. Isa. 65:8
I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me. Isa. 65:12
In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes. Isa. 65:16
Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that would answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me. Isa. 66:4
Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to this? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be brought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath brought forth her children? Isa. 66:8
Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way? Jer. 2:17
And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned. Jer. 2:35
That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself. Jer. 3:8
A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God. Jer. 3:21
We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God. Jer. 3:25
Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts. Jer. 4:4
They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord. Jer. 4:17
Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart. Jer. 4:18
The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither am I turned away from it. Jer. 4:28
For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain. Jer. 4:31
Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened. Jer. 5:6
Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's. Jer. 5:10
Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them. Jer. 5:14
They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord. Jer. 6:15
Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law. Jer. 6:19
Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us. Jer. 6:26
And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations. Jer. 7:10
And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered: Jer. 7:13
Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is called upon, to pollute it; Jer. 7:30
Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the valley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth, because there is no place. Jer. 7:32
Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully. Jer. 8:10
They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord. Jer. 8:12
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. Jer. 9:2
For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed. Jer. 9:10
And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it. Jer. 9:13
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down. Jer. 9:19
They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good. Jer. 10:5
Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not sought the Lord: therefore have they not understood, and all their flock is scattered. Jer. 10:21
Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory. Jer. 10:25
How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end. Jer. 12:4
They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart. Jer. 12:11
They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord. Jer. 12:13
But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive. Jer. 13:17
This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood. Jer. 13:25
For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they covered their heads. Jer. 14:4
Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass. Jer. 14:5
And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass. Jer. 14:6
And the people to whom they prophesy, shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and there shall be none to bury them: they and their wives, their sons and their daughters, and I will pour out their wickedness upon them. Jer. 14:16
And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil. Jer. 14:17
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. Jer. 14:20
And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem. Jer. 15:4
Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders. Jer. 15:13
I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats. Jer. 15:17
For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations. Jer. 16:5
Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored them: and they forsook me, and kept not my law. Jer. 16:11
And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their sins: because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations. Jer. 16:18
And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever. Jer. 17:4
O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters. Jer. 17:13
Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden: Jer. 18:15
Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them. Jer. 18:20
Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet. Jer. 18:22
Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place : and have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their fathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents. Jer. 19:4
And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof. Jer. 19:8
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people, and this city, as the potter's vessel is broken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in Topheth, because there is no other place to bury in. Jer. 19:11
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring in upon this city, and upon all the cities thereof all the evils that I have spoken against it: because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. Jer. 19:15
But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced. Jer. 20:11
Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked. Jer. 20:13
O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways. Jer. 21:12
And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them. Jer. 22:9
Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him? Jer. 22:15
He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord? Jer. 22:16
I spoke to thee in thy prosperity: and thou saidst: I will not hear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not heard my voice. Jer. 22:21
Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike. Jer. 23:10
But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus saith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the Lord: and I have sent to you, saying: Say not, The burden of the Lord: Jer. 23:38
One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad. Jer. 24:2
And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad. Jer. 24:3
And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart. Jer. 24:7
And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell in the land of Egypt. Jer. 24:8
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words: Jer. 25:8
And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the sword, which I shall send among them. Jer. 25:16
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you. Jer. 25:27
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock: because the Lord hath wasted their pastures. Jer. 25:36
And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Jer. 25:37
He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid waste because of the wrath of the dove, and because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Jer. 25:38
And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears. Jer. 26:11
Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon: Jer. 29:15
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will make them like bad figs that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad. Jer. 29:17
Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord: which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising by night, and sending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord. Jer. 29:19
Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord. Jer. 29:23
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because thou hast sent letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest, and to all the priests, saying: Jer. 29:25
Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite: Because Semeias hath prophesied to you, and I sent him not: and hath caused you to trust in a lie: Jer. 29:31
Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon Semeias the Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not have a man to sit in the midst of this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, saith the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against the Lord. Jer. 29:32
For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her. Jer. 30:17
Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not. Jer. 31:15
For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth. Jer. 31:19
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Jer. 32:32
And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you say that it is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans. Jer. 32:43
Of them that come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in my wrath, and in my indignation, hiding my face from this city because of all their wickedness. Jer. 33:5
Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard again in this place (which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast: in the cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem, which are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast) Jer. 33:10
And they answered : We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your children, for ever: Jer. 35:6
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, have prevailed: and they have drunk none to this day, because they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and you have not obeyed me. Jer. 35:14
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will bring upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them, and they have not heard: I have called to them, and they have not answered me. Jer. 35:17
And Jeremias said to the house of the Rechabites: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done all that he commanded you: Jer. 35:18
Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army, Jer. 37:11
And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid because of the Jews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered into their hands, and they should abuse me. Jer. 38:19
But delivering, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword: but thy life shall be saved for thee, because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord. Jer. 39:18
And he hath brought it: and the Lord hath done as he hath said: because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not hearkened to his voice, and this word is come upon you. Jer. 40:3
And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he slew because of Godolias, is the same that king Asa made, for fear of Baasa the king of Israel: the same did Ismahel the son of Nathanias fill with them that were slain. Jer. 41:9
From the face of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ismahel the son of Nathanias had slain Godolias the son of Ahicam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land of Juda. Jer. 41:18
Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. Jer. 42:11
Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew. Jer. 44:3
So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. Jer. 44:22
Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against the Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils come upon you, as at this day. Jer. 44:23
Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord hath overthrown them. Jer. 46:15
And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent. Jer. 46:28
Because of the coming of the day, in which all the Philistines shall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Cappadocia. Jer. 47:4
For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together. Jer. 48:7
Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks. Jer. 48:18
Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted. Jer. 48:20
Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision. Jer. 48:26
Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath done more than he could, therefore they have perished. Jer. 48:36
Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord. Jer. 48:38
And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried against the Lord. Jer. 48:42
All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers. Jer. 50:7
Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have bellowed as bulls. Jer. 50:11
Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues. Jer. 50:13
Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned against the Lord. Jer. 50:14
I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord. Jer. 50:24
A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things. Jer. 50:38
We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds. Jer. 51:9
Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. Jer. 51:11
And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant. Jer. 51:37
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord. Jer. 51:51
Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise: Jer. 51:55
Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay. Jer. 51:56
Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of her affliction, and the greatness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among the nations, and she hath found no rest; all her persecutors have taken her in the midst of straits. Lam. 1:3
Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. Lam. 1:4
He. Her adversaries are become her lords; her enemies are enriched; because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of her iniquities; her children are led into captivity, before the face of the oppressor. Lam. 1:5
Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward. Lam. 1:8
Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up. Lam. 1:9
Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed. Lam. 1:16
Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. Lam. 3:22
Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. Lam. 3:28
Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: Lam. 3:49
Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. Lam. 3:51
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. Lam. 5:9
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned. Lam. 5:16
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it. Lam. 5:18
And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice. Bar. 2:5
But because thou hast sent out thy wrath, and thy indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: Bar. 2:20
Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned before thee. Bar. 3:7
And because they had not wisdom, they perished through their folly. Bar. 3:28
We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us. Bar. 4:4
You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries. Bar. 4:6
Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God. Bar. 4:12
For my hope is in the Eternal that he will save you: and joy is come upon me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall come to you from our everlasting Saviour. Bar. 4:22
But when they have covered them with a purple garment, they wipe their face because of the dust of the house, which is very much among them. Bar. 6:12
For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood: Bar. 6:29
They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth. Bar. 6:53
But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart. Ezec. 3:7
Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand. Ezec. 3:20
But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezec. 3:21
And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house. Ezec. 3:26
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you: Ezec. 5:7
And I will do in thee that which I have not done: and the like to which I will do no more, because of all thy abominations. Ezec. 5:9
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast violated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with all thy abominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my eye shall not spare, and I will not have any pity. Ezec. 5:11
And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. Ezec. 6:9
Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity. Ezec. 7:19
And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose. Ezec. 8:17
And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not walked in my commandments, and have not done my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you. Ezec. 11:12
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because I have removed them far off among the Gentiles, and because I have scattered them among the countries: I will be to them a little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come. Ezec. 11:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken vain things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come against you, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 13:8
Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt without straw. Ezec. 13:10
Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his evil way, and live. Ezec. 13:22
And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land to waste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none that can pass because of the beasts: Ezec. 14:15
And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 15:8
But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his. Ezec. 16:15
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst played the harlot with them, even so thou wast not contented. Ezec. 16:28
Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price, Ezec. 16:31
Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been poured out, and thy shame discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and with the idols of thy abominations, by the blood of thy children whom thou gavest them: Ezec. 16:36
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations. Ezec. 16:43
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 16:63
As for his father, because he oppressed and offered violence to his brother, and wrought evil in the midst of his people, behold he is dead in his own iniquity. Ezec. 18:18
And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live. Ezec. 18:19
Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die. Ezec. 18:28
Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols. Ezec. 20:16
Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers. Ezec. 20:24
And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 21:7
Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 21:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have remembered your iniquity, and have discovered your prevarications, and your sins have appeared in all your devices: because, I say, You have remembered, you shall be taken with the hand. Ezec. 21:24
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem. Ezec. 22:19
They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols. Ezec. 23:30
And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 23:34
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications. Ezec. 23:35
Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured. Ezec. 23:37
They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. Ezec. 23:45
Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee. Ezec. 24:13
And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was profaned: and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are led into captivity: Ezec. 25:3
For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast clapped thy hands and stamped with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with all thy heart against the land of Israel: Ezec. 25:6
Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations: Ezec. 25:8
Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance to revenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath greatly offended, and hath sought revenge of them: Ezec. 25:12
Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance, and have revenged themselves with all their mind, destroying and satisfying old enmities: Ezec. 25:15
Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the people are broken, she is turned to me: I shall be filled, now she is laid waste. Ezec. 26:2
She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations. Ezec. 26:5
Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of thee. Ezec. 26:18
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God. Ezec. 28:2
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God: Ezec. 28:6
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord: because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel. Ezec. 29:6
And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast said: The river is mine, and I made it. Ezec. 29:9
And for the service that he hath done me against it: I have given him the land of Egypt, because he hath laboured for me, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 29:20
In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come. Ezec. 30:9
Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the country and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because of many waters. Ezec. 31:5
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because he was exalted in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up in his height: Ezec. 31:10
And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them that fell uncircumcised, that went down to hell with their weapons, and laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities were in their bones, because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. Ezec. 32:27
Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, and he hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword: Pharao and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 32:32
And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass by them, Ezec. 33:28
And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd and they became the prey of all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. Ezec. 34:5
As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek after my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks: Ezec. 34:8
Because you thrusted with sides and shoulders, and struck all the weak cattle with your horns, till they were scattered abroad: Ezec. 34:21
Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity. Ezec. 35:5
Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there. Ezec. 35:10
As thou hast rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezec. 35:15
Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said of you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance. Ezec. 36:2
Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people: Ezec. 36:3
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my indignation, because you have borne the shame of the Gentiles. Ezec. 36:6
Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation: Ezec. 36:13
And the nations shall know that the house of Israel were made captives for their iniquity, because they forsook me, and I hid my face from them: and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they fell all by the sword. Ezec. 39:23
And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I caused them to be carried away among the nations; and I have gathered them together unto their own land, and have not left any of them there. Ezec. 39:28
Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from the lower parts, and from the midst of the building. Ezec. 42:5
And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut Ezec. 44:2
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity: Ezec. 44:12
But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits. Ezec. 47:11
And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine. Ezec. 47:12
And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the Lord. Ezec. 48:14
To thee, O God of our fathers, I give thanks, and I praise thee: because thou hast given me wisdom and strength: and now thou hast shewn me what we desired of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king's discourse. Dan. 2:23
Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them all. Dan. 13:4
And him indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than us, and opening the doors, he leaped out: Dan. 13:39
But Helcias, and his wife, praised God, for their daughter, Susanna, with Joakim, her husband, and all her kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her. Dan. 13:63
O give thanks to the Lord, because he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever and ever. Dan. A:66
O all ye religious, bless the Lord, the God of gods: praise him, and give him thanks, because his mercy endureth for ever and ever. Dan. A:67
His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, because they are mighty: and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations. Dan. 4:3
Baltassar, prince of the diviners, because I know that thou hast in thee the spirit of the holy gods, and that no secret is impossible to thee, tell me the visions of my dreams that I have seen, and the interpretation of them? Dan. 4:9
I, king Nabuchodonosor, saw this dream: thou, therefore, O Baltassar, tell me quickly the interpretation: for all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to declare the meaning of it to me: but thou art able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. Dan. 4:18
Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase. Dan. 4:37
Because a greater spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, and interpretation of dreams, and shewing of secrets, and resolving of difficult things, were found in him, that is, in Daniel: whom the king named Baltassar. Now, therefore, let Daniel be called for, and he will tell the interpretation. Dan. 5:12
And Daniel excelled all the princes, and governors: because a greater spirit of God was in him. Dan. 6:3
And the king thought to set him over all the kingdom; whereupon the princes, and the governors, sought to find occasion against Daniel, with regard to the king: and they could find no cause, nor suspicion, because he was faithful, and no fault, nor suspicion was found in him. Dan. 6:4
Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and he commanded that Daniel should be taken out of the den: and Daniel was taken out of the den, and no hurt was found in him, because he believed in his God. Dan. 6:23
And he answered, and said to him: Because I do not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, that created heaven and earth, and hath power over all flesh. Dan. 14:4
But if you can shew that Bel eateth these things, Daniel shall die, because he hath blasphemed against Bel. And Daniel said to the king: Be it done according to thy word. Dan. 14:8
And they little regarded it, because they had made under the table a secret entrance, and they always came in by it, and consumed those things. Dan. 14:12
I beheld, because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke: and I saw that the beast was slain, and the body thereof was destroyed, and given to the fire to be burnt: Dan. 7:11
And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper. Dan. 8:12
And the vision of the evening and the morning, which was told, is true: thou, therefore, seal up the vision, because it shall come to pass after many days. Dan. 8:26
And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him. Dan. 9:11
O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken, and do: delay not, for thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and upon thy people. Dan. 9:19
From the beginning of thy prayers the word came forth: and I am come to shew it to thee, because thou art a man of desires: therefore, do thou mark the word, and understand the vision. Dan. 9:23
And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end is unto another time. Dan. 11:27
And some of the learned shall fall, that they may be tried, and may be chosen, and made white, even to the appointed time: because yet there shall be another time. Dan. 11:35
And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time. Dan. 12:9
Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts. Osee 2:2
And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband: because it was better with me then than now. Osee 2:7
My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. Osee 4:6
And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing his law. Osee 4:10
They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses. Osee 4:13
I will not visit upon your daughters, when they shall commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten. Osee 4:14
The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices. Osee 4:19
¤ Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over and a net spread upon Thabor. Osee 5:1
Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness. Osee 5:11
Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire. Osee 7:6
Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me. Osee 7:13
¤ Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law. Osee 8:1
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin. Osee 8:11
For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles. Osee 9:6
My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. Osee 9:17
For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us? Osee 10:3
The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the kine of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it. Osee 10:5
You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones. Osee 10:13
So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities. Osee 10:15
¤ As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt. Osee 11:1
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted. Osee 11:5
I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy one in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the city. Osee 11:9
They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear. Osee 11:10
Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel. Osee 13:15
Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up. Osee 13:16
The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. Joel 1:11
The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men. Joel 1:12
Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God. Joel 1:13
Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty. Joel 1:15
The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded. Joel 1:17
Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished. Joel 1:18
To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country. Joel 1:19
Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand. Joel 2:1
And I will remove far off from you the northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea: and his stench shall ascend, and his rottenness shall go up, because he hath done proudly. Joel 2:20
And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning. Joel 2:23
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land. Joel 3:19
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four I will not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains. Amso 1:3
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will not convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to shut them up in Edom. Amso 1:6
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will not convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom, and have not remembered the covenant of brethren. Amso 1:9
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath cast off all pity, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end. Amso 1:11
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border. Amso 1:13
¤ Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes. Amso 2:1
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked. Amso 2:4
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes. Amso 2:6
Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. Amso 5:11
Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate. Amso 5:12
And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. Amso 5:17
But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom. Amso 7:13
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these things. Amso 9:12
And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast thou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the Lord: because he had told them.) Jonas 1:10
And the men rowed hard to return to land, but they were not able: because the sea tossed and swelled upon them. Jonas 1:13
Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. Mic. 1:9
¤ Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. Mic. 2:1
And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God. Mic. 3:7
Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests. Mic. 3:12
Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy counsellor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in labour. Mic. 4:9
But they have not known the thoughts of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: because he hath gathered them together as the hay of the floor. Mic. 4:12
Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light. Mic. 7:8
I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice. Mic. 7:9
And the land shall be made desolate because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit of their devices. Mic. 7:13
Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. Mic. 7:18
For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred their vine branches. Nah. 2:2
Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold nations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts. Nah. 3:4
Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to the end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong judgment goeth forth. Hab. 1:4
Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty. Hab. 1:16
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all that shall be left of the people shall spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the iniquity of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. Hab. 2:8
For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, and the ravaging of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men, and the iniquity of the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein. Hab. 2:17
What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols. Hab. 2:18
And I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as earth, and their bodies as dung. Soph. 1:17
And it shall be the portion of him that shall remain of the house of Juda, there they shall feed: in the houses of Ascalon they shall rest in the evening: because the Lord their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity. Soph. 2:7
This shall befall them for their pride: because they have blasphemed, and have been magnified against the people of the Lord of hosts. Soph. 2:10
Because then I will restore to the people a chosen lip, that all may call upon the name of the Lord, and may serve him with one shoulder. Soph. 3:9
In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain. Soph. 3:11
The triflers that were departed from the law, I will gather together, because they were of thee: that thou mayest no more suffer reproach for them. Soph. 3:18
You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house. Agg. 1:9
For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was there hire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor to him that went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go every one against his neighbour. Zach. 8:10
Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very sorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited. Zach. 9:5
Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the mighty. Zach. 9:13
For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd. Zach. 10:2
And they shall be as mighty men, treading under foot the mire of the ways in battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders of horses shall be confounded. Zach. 10:5
And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph: and I will bring them back again, because I will have mercy on them: and they shall be as they were when I had not cast them off, for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them. Zach. 10:6
I will whistle for them, and I will gather them together, because I have redeemed them: and I will multiply them as they were multiplied before. Zach. 10:8
Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are laid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut down. Zach. 11:2
The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is laid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of the Jordan is spoiled. Zach. 11:3
And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any more, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall thrust him through, when he shall prophesy. Zach. 13:3
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart. Mal. 2:2
For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts. Mal. 2:7
And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant. Mal. 2:14
And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives, and their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them. 1 Ma. 2:30
Today he is lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his earth and his thought is come to nothing. 1 Ma. 2:63
And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension, and the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the laws of old times: 1 Ma. 3:29
And returning home, they sung a hymn, and blessed God in heaven, because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever. 1 Ma. 4:24
And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded. 1 Ma. 4:27
And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so they threw it down. 1 Ma. 4:45
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them. 1 Ma. 5:3
And they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, and offered holocausts, because not one of them was slain, till they had returned in peace. 1 Ma. 5:54
Because they did not hearken to Judas and his brethren, thinking that they should do manfully. 1 Ma. 5:61
So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city. 1 Ma. 6:3
And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, that he was struck with fear, and exceedingly moved: and he laid himself down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not fallen out to him as he imagined. 1 Ma. 6:8
And he made peace with them that were in Bethsura: and they came forth out of the city, because they had no victuals, being shut up there, for it was the year of rest to the land. 1 Ma. 6:49
But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up. 1 Ma. 6:53
And let us covenant with them, that they may live according to their own laws, as before. For because of our despising their laws, they have been provoked, and have done all these things. 1 Ma. 6:59
And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and the battle pressed upon him, and his heart was cast down: because he had not time to gather them together, and he was discouraged. 1 Ma. 9:7
And they were struck with great fear, because they heard that the king had given him authority to gather together an army. 1 Ma. 10:8
Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credit to them, nor received them because they remembered the great evil that he had done in Israel, for he had afflicted them exceedingly. 1 Ma. 10:46
And their inclinations were towards Alexander, because he had been the chief promoter of peace in their regard, and him they always helped. 1 Ma. 10:47
Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains. 1 Ma. 10:70
And they pitched their tents near Joppe, but they shut him out of the city: because a garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid siege to it. 1 Ma. 10:75
And he went to Azotus, as one that was making a journey, and immediately he went forth into the plain: because he had a great number of horsemen, and he trusted in them. And Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, and they joined battle. 1 Ma. 10:78
And he went out into Syria with peaceable words and they opened to him the cities, and met him: for king Alexander had ordered them to go forth to meet him, because he was his father in law. 1 Ma. 11:2
And he slandered him, because he coveted his kingdom, 1 Ma. 11:11
Now king Alexander was in Cilicia at that time: because they that were in those places had rebelled. 1 Ma. 11:14
And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, desiring that he would cast out them that were in the castle in Jerusalem, and those that were in the strong holds: because they fought against Israel. 1 Ma. 11:41
Because he sent not the money and the children therefore is he lost. 1 Ma. 13:18
And they entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the year one hundred and seventy-one, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because the great enemy was destroyed out of Israel. 1 Ma. 13:51
And the people seeing the acts of Simon, and to what glory he meant to bring his nation, made him their prince and high priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to advance his people. 1 Ma. 14:35
And Moses said: Because the sin offering was not eaten, it was consumed. 2 Ma. 2:11
For considering the multitude of books, and the difficulty that they find that desire to undertake the narrations of histories, because of the multitude of the matter, 2 Ma. 2:25
¤ Therefore, when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws as yet were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias, the high priest and the hatred his soul had of evil, 2 Ma. 3:1
Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. 2 Ma. 3:18
But they praised the Lord, because he had glorified his place: and the temple, that a little before was full of fear and trouble, when the Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness. 2 Ma. 3:30
And when the high priest was praying, the same young men in the same clothing stood by Heliodorus, and said to him: Give thanks to Onias the priest: because for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life. 2 Ma. 3:33
The wicked Jason sent from Jerusalem sinful men, to carry three hundred didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of Hercules; but the bearers thereof desired it might not be bestowed on the sacrifices, because it was not necessary, but might be deputed for other charges. 2 Ma. 4:19
So the money was appointed by him that sent it to the sacrifice of Hercules: but because of them that carried it was employed for the making of galleys. 2 Ma. 4:20
When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus, and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to Antiochus, the king's concubine. 2 Ma. 4:30
Thus Antiochus going astray in mind, did not consider that God was angry for a while, because of the sins of the inhabitants of the city: and therefore this contempt had happened to the place: 2 Ma. 5:17
And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day. 2 Ma. 6:11
But when he was now ready to die with the stripes, he groaned: and said: O Lord, who hast the holy knowledge, thou knowest manifestly that whereas I might be delivered from death, I suffer grievous pains in body: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear thee. 2 Ma. 6:30
And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them, because I hope to receive them again from him. 2 Ma. 7:11
So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing. 2 Ma. 7:12
And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in Babylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the point, and the Macedonians, their companions, were at a stand, slew a hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven, and for this they received many favours. 2 Ma. 8:20
And he that had promised to levy the tribute for the Romans, by the means of the captives of Jerusalem, now professed that the Jews had God for their protector, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the laws appointed by him. 2 Ma. 8:36
And swelling with anger, he thought to revenge upon the Jews the injury done by them that had put him to flight. And therefore he commanded his chariot to be driven, without stopping in his journey, the judgment of heaven urging him forward, because he had spoken so proudly, that he would come to Jerusalem, and make it a common burying place of the Jews. 2 Ma. 9:4
But being accused for this to Eupator by his friends, and being oftentimes called traitor, because he had left Cyprus, which Philometor had committed to him, and coming over to Antiochus the Illustrious, had revolted also from him, he put an end to his life by poison. 2 Ma. 10:13
But when the fifth day appeared, twenty young men of them that were with Machabeus, inflamed in their minds, because of the blasphemy, approached manfully to the wall, and pushing forward with fierce courage, got up upon it: 2 Ma. 10:35
And as he was a man of understanding, considering with himself the loss he had suffered, and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because they relied upon the help of the Almighty God, he sent to them: 2 Ma. 11:13
Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of them. 2 Ma. 12:4
And Timotheus himself fell into the hands of the band of Dositheus and Sosipater, and with many prayers he besought them to let him go with his life, because he had the parents and brethren of many of the Jews, who, by his death, might happen to be deceived. 2 Ma. 12:24
And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain. 2 Ma. 12:42
And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. 2 Ma. 12:45
Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations. 2 Ma. 13:11
But because he could not oppose the king, he watched an opportunity to comply with the orders 2 Ma. 14:29
Thus being exhorted with the words of Judas, which were very good, and proper to stir up the courage, and strengthen the hearts of the young men, they resolved to fight, and to set upon them manfully: that valour might decide the matter, because the holy city, and the temple were in danger. 2 Ma. 15:17
A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. Mt. 2:18
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. Mt. 5:36
And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. Mt. 9:36
At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones. Mt. 11:25
Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. Mt. 11:29
The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here. Mt. 12:41
The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon here. Mt. 12:42
And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth. Mt. 13:5
And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away. Mt. 13:6
Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. Mt. 13:11
Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Mt. 13:13
But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Mt. 13:16
Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized. Mt. 13:21
And he wrought not many miracles there, because of their unbelief. Mt. 13:58
For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into prison, because of Herodias, his brother's wife. Mt. 14:3
And having a mind to put him to death, he feared the people: because they esteemed him as a prophet. Mt. 14:5
And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for them that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given. Mt. 14:9
And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. Mt. 15:32
But they thought within themselves, saying: Because we have taken no bread. Mt. 16:7
And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. Mt. 16:17
Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men. Mt. 16:23
Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible to you. Mt. 17:20
Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. Mt. 18:7
Then his lord called him: and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me: Mt. 18:32
He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. Mt. 19:8
They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard. Mt. 20:7
Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good? Mt. 20:15
And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet. Mt. 21:46
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter. Mt. 23:13
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment. Mt. 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves. Mt. 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone. Mt. 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness. Mt. 23:25
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. Mt. 23:27
And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. Mt. 24:12
Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. Mt. 24:42
Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come. Mt. 24:44
Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour. Mt. 25:13
His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Mt. 25:21
His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Mt. 25:23
But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood. Mt. 27:6
And as he was sitting in the place of judgment, his wife sent to him, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. Mt. 27:19
And he healed many that were troubled with divers diseases. And he cast out many devils: and he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him. Mk. 1:34
And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. Mk. 3:9
Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit. Mk. 3:30
And other some fell upon stony ground, where it had not much earth; and it shot up immediately, because it had no depth of earth. Mk. 4:5
And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. Mk. 4:6
And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. Mk. 4:29
And he wondered because of their unbelief, and he went through the villages round about teaching. Mk. 6:6
For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her. Mk. 6:17
And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her: Mk. 6:26
And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. Mk. 6:34
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into the belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? Mk. 7:19
And they reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we have no bread. Mk. 8:16
Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded? Mk. 8:17
Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, saying: Go behind me, Satan, because thou savourest not the things that are of God but that are of men. Mk. 8:33
For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. Mk. 9:41
To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart, he wrote you that precept. Mk. 10:5
Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine. Mk. 11:18
And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures nor the power of God? Mk. 12:24
And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath), Mk. 15:42
At length he appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again. Mk. 16:14
And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou hast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time. Lk. 1:20
And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man? Lk. 1:34
Because no word shall be impossible with God. Lk. 1:37
And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord. Lk. 1:45
Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Lk. 1:48
Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy is his name. Lk. 1:49
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people. Lk. 1:68
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he was of the house and family of David. Lk. 2:4
And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger: because there was no room for them in the inn. Lk. 2:7
Because my eyes have seen thy salvation, Lk. 2:30
And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down through the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus. Lk. 5:19
Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less. Lk. 7:47
And other some fell upon a rock. And as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. Lk. 8:6
And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him. Lk. 8:30
Now Herod, the tetrarch, heard of all things that were done by him. And he was in a doubt, because it was said by some that John was risen from the dead: Lk. 9:7
And behold a man among the crowd cried out, saying: Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only one. Lk. 9:38
And John, answering, said: Master, we saw a certain man casting out devils in thy name: and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us. Lk. 9:49
And they received him not, because his face was of one going to Jerusalem. Lk. 9:53
In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight. Lk. 10:21
Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me and I have not what to set before him. Lk. 11:6
Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. Lk. 11:8
And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because you say that through Beelzebub I cast out devils. Lk. 11:18
The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men of this generation and shall condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold more than Solomon here. Lk. 11:31
The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it; Because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold more than Jonas here. Lk. 11:32
But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Lk. 11:42
Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace. Lk. 11:43
Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware. Lk. 11:44
But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers. Lk. 11:46
And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? Lk. 12:17
And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things? Lk. 13:2
Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow and the day following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of Jerusalem. Lk. 13:33
Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Lk. 14:11
And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just. Lk. 14:14
And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost? Lk. 15:6
And when she hath found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat which I had lost. Lk. 15:9
Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. Lk. 15:24
And he said to him: Thy brother is come and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe. Lk. 15:27
And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed. Lk. 16:3
Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me. Lk. 18:5
I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Lk. 18:14
And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for the crowd, because he was low of stature. Lk. 19:3
Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. Lk. 19:9
As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested. Lk. 19:11
And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities. Lk. 19:17
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow. Lk. 19:21
And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? You shall say thus unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service. Lk. 19:31
But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him. Lk. 19:34
And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. Lk. 19:44
But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand. Lk. 21:28
And Herod seeing Jesus, was very glad: for he was desirous of a long time to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to see some sign wrought by him. Lk. 23:8
But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them. Lk. 24:29
John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me. Jn. 1:15
This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is preferred before me: because he was before me. Jn. 1:30
Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see. Jn. 1:50
And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man. Jn. 2:25
He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Jn. 3:18
And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. Jn. 3:19
But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God. Jn. 3:21
And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized. Jn. 3:23
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled. Jn. 3:29
And many more believed in him, because of his own word. Jn. 4:41
Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. Jn. 5:16
Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God. Jn. 5:18
And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man. Jn. 5:27
I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I seek not my own will, but the will of him that sent me. Jn. 5:30
And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles which he did on them that were diseased. Jn. 6:2
Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and were filled. Jn. 6:26
Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me. Jn. 6:38
The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the living bread which came down from heaven. Jn. 6:41
¤ After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. Jn. 7:1
The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil, Jn. 7:7
Go you up to this festival day: but I go not up to this festival day, because my time is not accomplished. Jn. 7:8
Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man. Jn. 7:22
If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day? Jn. 7:23
I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me. Jn. 7:29
They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. Jn. 7:30
Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Jn. 7:39
So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. Jn. 7:43
And if I do judge, my judgment is true: because I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. Jn. 8:16
These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. Jn. 8:20
The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go you cannot come? Jn. 8:22
I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. Jn. 8:37
Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. Jn. 8:43
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. Jn. 8:44
He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God. Jn. 8:47
These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Jn. 9:22
And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. Jn. 10:4
But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers. Jn. 10:5
And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep. Jn. 10:13
Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. Jn. 10:17
But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. Jn. 10:26
The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou, being a, man, makest thyself God. Jn. 10:33
Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God? Jn. 10:36
Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world: Jn. 11:9
But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him. Jn. 11:10
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. Jn. 11:42
Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein. Jn. 12:6
Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away and believed in Jesus. Jn. 12:11
For which reason also the people came to meet him, because they heard that he had done this miracle. Jn. 12:18
Jesus answered and said: This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Jn. 12:30
Therefore they could not believe, because Isaias said again: Jn. 12:39
However, many of the chief men also believed in him: but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast out of the synagogue. Jn. 12:42
For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival day: or that he should give something to the poor. Jn. 13:29
In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. Jn. 14:2
Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do: and greater than these shall he do. Because I go to the Father: Jn. 14:12
The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you. Jn. 14:17
Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live. Jn. 14:19
You have heard that I said to you: I go away, and I come unto you. If you loved me you would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father: for the Father is greater than I. Jn. 14:28
I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends, because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. Jn. 15:15
If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Jn. 15:19
But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me. Jn. 15:21
And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning. Jn. 15:27
And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me. Jn. 16:3
But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them. But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. Jn. 16:4
But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Jn. 16:6
Of sin: because they believed not in me. Jn. 16:9
And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer. Jn. 16:10
And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged. Jn. 16:11
He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine and shall shew it to you. Jn. 16:14
A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father. Jn. 16:16
Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the Father? Jn. 16:17
And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you shall see me? Jn. 16:19
A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. Jn. 16:21
For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God. Jn. 16:27
Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. Jn. 16:32
Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me. Jn. 17:8
I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine. Jn. 17:9
I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. Jn. 17:14
Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world. Jn. 17:24
And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: because Jesus had often resorted thither together with his disciples. Jn. 18:2
Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also, standing and warming himself. Jn. 18:18
The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. Jn. 19:7
This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city. And it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. Jn. 19:20
Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away. Jn. 19:31
And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus. Jn. 19:38
There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus: because the sepulchre was nigh at hand. Jn. 19:42
They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: Because they have taken away my Lord: and I know not where they have laid him. Jn. 20:13
Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen and have believed. Jn. 20:29
He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep. Jn. 21:17
And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his own tongue. Acts 2:6
For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my face: because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved. Acts 2:25
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. Acts 2:27
But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass. Acts 4:21
And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had bewitched them with his magical practices. Acts 8:11
But Peter said to him: Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Acts 8:20
And he was angry with the Tyrians and the Sidonians. But they with one accord came to him: and, having gained Blastus who was the king's chamberlain, they desired peace, because their countries were nourished by him. Acts 12:20
And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost. Acts 12:23
Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles. Acts 13:46
And they called Barnabas, Jupiter: but Paul, Mercury: because he was chief speaker. Acts 14:12
Him Paul would have to go along with him: and taking him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they all knew that his father was a Gentile. Acts 16:3
And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics disputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. Acts 17:18
Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead. Acts 17:31
And finding a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome), he came to them. Acts 18:2
And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.) Acts 18:3
Because I am with thee and no man shall set upon thee, to hurt thee. For I have much people in this city. Acts 18:10
And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people. Acts 21:35
And saw him saying unto me: Make haste and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. Acts 22:18
Immediately therefore they departed from him that were about to torture him. The tribune also was afraid after he understood that he was a Roman citizen and because he had bound him. Acts 22:29
And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. Acts 27:4
And when much time was spent and when sailing now was dangerous, because the fast was now past, Paul comforted them, Acts 27:9
But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy. For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain and of the cold. Acts 28:2
For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain. Acts 28:20
First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: because your faith is spoken of in the whole world. Rom. 1:8
Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them. Rom. 1:19
Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. Rom. 1:21
Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them. Rom. 3:2
Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. Rom. 3:20
And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us. Rom. 5:5
But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time. Christ died for us. Rom. 5:8
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid! Rom. 6:15
I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. Rom. 6:19
Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be. Rom. 8:7
And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification. Rom. 8:10
And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Rom. 8:11
Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. Rom. 8:21
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit desireth: because he asketh for the saints according to God. Rom. 8:27
But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us. Rom. 8:37
For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth. Rom. 9:28
Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone. Rom. 9:32
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear. Rom. 11:20
For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Rom. 14:15
But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin. Rom. 14:23
But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me from God, Rom. 15:15
But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. 1 Cor. 2:14
Every man's work shall be manifest. For the day of the Lord shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is. 1 Cor. 3:13
The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. 1 Cor. 11:7
Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels. 1 Cor. 11:10
If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the Body? 1 Cor. 12:15
And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the body? 1 Cor. 12:16
Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because he knoweth not what thou sayest. 1 Cor. 14:16
For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 1 Cor. 15:9
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again. 1 Cor. 15:15
And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: because that which was wanting on your part, they have supplied. 1 Cor. 16:17
not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand. 2 Cor. 1:24
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia. 2 Cor. 2:13
But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void). 2 Cor. 3:14
For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 2 Cor. 5:4
Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. 2 Cor. 7:9
Therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation we did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 2 Cor. 7:13
Because the administration of this office doth not only supply the want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the Lord. 2 Cor. 9:12
And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of the excellent grace of God in you. 2 Cor. 9:14
Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely? 2 Cor. 11:7
Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it. 2 Cor. 11:11
But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude. Gal. 2:4
But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Gal. 2:11
But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. Gal. 2:16
But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith. Gal. 3:11
Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Gal. 3:19
And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father. Gal. 4:6
Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You have not injured me at all. Gal. 4:12
Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Gal. 4:16
And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you. Gal. 4:20
Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? Eph. 4:9
Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. Eph. 4:18
Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Eph. 5:6
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Eph. 5:16
Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. Eph. 5:23
Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones. Eph. 5:30
Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain. Phil. 2:16
Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service. Phil. 2:30
Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell: Col. 1:19
So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us. 1 Th. 2:8
Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed. 1 Th. 2:13
Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord. 1 Th. 3:8
And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified. 1 Th. 4:6
We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you towards each other aboundeth. 2 Th. 1:3
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day. 2 Th. 1:10
And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Th. 2:10
Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 1 Tim. 1:13
For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. 1 Tim. 4:10
Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith. 1 Tim. 5:12
But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 1 Tim. 6:2
The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain: 2 Tim. 1:16
And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Tim. 3:15
For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother. Ph'm 1:7
Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil: Heb. 2:14
And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief. Heb. 3:19
Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief: Heb. 4:6
Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity. Heb. 5:2
Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear. Heb. 5:11
For God making promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself, Heb. 6:13
There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof: Heb. 7:18
And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason of death they were not suffered to continue: Heb. 7:23
Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. Heb. 8:9
Because I will be merciful to their iniquities: and their sins I will remember no more. Heb. 8:12
For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer. Heb. 10:2
By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and he was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God. Heb. 11:5
By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised, Heb. 11:11
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king's edict. Heb. 11:23
And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. Jas. 1:10
You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You contend and war, and you have not: because you ask not. Jas. 4:2
You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences. Jas. 4:3
Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy. 1 Pet. 1:16
For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps. 1 Pet. 2:21
Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things. 1 Pet. 3:12
Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, 1 Pet. 3:18
Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. 1 Pet. 5:8
Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now shineth. 1 Jn. 2:8
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes. 1 Jn. 2:11
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. 1 Jn. 2:12
I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. 1 Jn. 2:13
I write unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. 1 Jn. 2:14
¤ Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him. 1 Jn. 3:1
Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is. 1 Jn. 3:2
Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 Jn. 3:9
Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just. 1 Jn. 3:12
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. 1 Jn. 3:14
In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 1 Jn. 3:16
And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight. 1 Jn. 3:22
¤ Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 Jn. 4:1
You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 1 Jn. 4:4
By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. 1 Jn. 4:9
In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. 1 Jn. 4:10
In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit. 1 Jn. 4:13
In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world. 1 Jn. 4:17
Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth is not perfected in charity. 1 Jn. 4:18
Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us. 1 Jn. 4:19
If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son. 1 Jn. 5:9
He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son. 1 Jn. 5:10
Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 3 Jn. 1:7
Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him: and they also that pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail themselves because of him. Even so. Amen. Apoc. 1:7
But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity. Apoc. 2:4
But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication. Apoc. 2:14
But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols. Apoc. 2:20
But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. Apoc. 3:4
I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened, which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name. Apoc. 3:8
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth. Apoc. 3:10
But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. Apoc. 3:16
Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. Apoc. 3:17
Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and power. Because thou hast created all things: and for thy will they were and have been created. Apoc. 4:11
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book, nor to see it. Apoc. 5:4
And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation: Apoc. 5:9
And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Apoc. 8:11
But the court which is without the temple, cast out and measure it not: because it is given unto the Gentiles. And the holy city they shall tread under foot, two and forty months: Apoc. 11:2
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth. Apoc. 11:10
Saying: We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast and who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and thou hast reigned. Apoc. 11:17
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night. Apoc. 12:10
Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. Apoc. 12:12
Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord and give him honour, because the hour of his judgment is come. And adore ye him that made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters. Apoc. 14:7
And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat upon the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle and reap, because the hour is come to reap. For the harvest of the earth is ripe. Apoc. 14:15
And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire. And he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes thereof are ripe. Apoc. 14:18
Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all nations shall come and shall adore in thy sight, because thy judgments are manifest. Apoc. 15:4
And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things. Apoc. 16:5
And they blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and wounds: and did not penance for their works. Apoc. 16:11
And great hail, like a talent, came down from heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God, for the plague of the hail: because it was exceeding great. Apoc. 16:21
These shall fight with the Lamb. And the Lamb shall overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are with him are called and elect and faithful. Apoc. 17:14
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. Apoc. 18:3
As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. Apoc. 18:7
Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her. Apoc. 18:8
And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten them. And they shall reign for ever and ever. Apoc. 22:5
because the magnificence of thy glorie is importable, & the wrath of thy threatning vpon sinners is intollerable: Man. 1:5
because thou art our Lord, most high, benigne, long suffering, and very merciful, and penitent vpon the wickednes of men. Thou Lord according to the multitude of thy goodnes hast promised penance, and remission to them that haue sinned to thee, and by the multitude of thy mercies thou hast decreed penance to sinners, vnto saluation. Man. 1:7
because I haue sinned aboue the number of the sand of the sea. Myne iniquities Lord be multiplied, mine iniquities be multiplied, and I am not worthie to behold, & looke vpon the height of heauen, for the multitude of mine iniquities. Man. 1:9
I am made crooked with manie a band of yron, that I can not lift vp my head, and I haue not respiration: because I haue stirred vp thy wrath, and haue done euil before thee: I haue not done thy wil, and thy commandmentes I haue not kept: I haue set vp abominations, and multiplied offenses. Man. 1:10
Wherefore I beseech disiring thee, forgeue me Lord, forgeue me: and destroy me not together with myne iniquities, neither reserue thou for euer, being angrie, euils for me, neither damme me into the lowest places of the earth: because thou art Lord, God, I say, of the penitent: Man. 1:13
in me thou shalt shew al thy goodnes because thou shalt saue me vnworthie according to thy great mercie, Man. 1:14
and I wil prayse thee alwayes al the dayes of my life: because al the power of the heauens prayseth thee, and to thee is glorie for euer and euer. Amen. Man. 1:15
And because that is in doing about the temple, we thought it should doe wel not to neglect this same thing: 3 Esd. 2:20
And now beleue me, that the king is great in his powre: because al countries are afrayd to touch him. 3 Esd. 4:28
and they blessed the God of their fathers, because he gaue them remission and refreshing, 3 Esd. 4:62
And they song a song to our Lord, because his sweetenes, and honour is for euer vpon Israel. 3 Esd. 5:61
And because our fathers were prouoking to wrath, and sinned agaynst God of Israel, he deliuered them into the handes of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, king of the Chaldees. 3 Esd. 6:15
Al the children of the captiuitie were not sanctified together, because al the Leuites were sanctified together. 3 Esd. 7:11
Because he turned the counsel of the king of the Assirians toward them, to strengthen their handes to the workes of our Lord the God of Israel. 3 Esd. 7:15
And the king gaue him glorie, because he had found grace in al dignitie and desire in his sight. 3 Esd. 8:4
And I vowed there a fast to the yong men in the sight of God, that I might aske of him a good iourney for vs, and them that were with vs, and for the children, and the cattel because of ambushementes. 3 Esd. 8:51
Because from the times of our fathers we are in great sinne vnto this day. 3 Esd. 8:77
But because the multitude is great, and winter time, and we can not stand in the ayre without succour: and this is a worke for vs not of one day, nor of two, for we haue sinned much in these thinges: 3 Esd. 9:11
because the sinnes of their parentes are increased in them, for they being forgetful of me haue sacrified to strange goddes. 4 Esd. 1:6
But doe thou shake of the heare of thy head, and throw al euils vpon them: because they haue not obeyed my law. And it is a people without discipline. 4 Esd. 1:8
Because you haue forsaken me, I aslo forsake you: when you aske mercie of me, I wil not haue mercie. (Isa. 1:15) 4 Esd. 1:25
and your children shal not haue issue: because they haue neglected my commandment, and haue done that which is euil before me. 4 Esd. 1:34
Their mother that bare them, sayth to them: Goe children, because I am a wydow and forsaken. 4 Esd. 2:2
I brought you vp with ioy, & haue lost you with mourning & sorow, because you haue sinned before our Lord your God, & haue done that which is euil before him. 4 Esd. 2:3
Let their names be dispersed into the Gentiles, let them be destroyed out of the land: because they haue despised my sacrament. 4 Esd. 2:7
Cal thou heauen and earth to witnes: for I haue destroyed euil, and haue created good, because I liue sayth our Lord. 4 Esd. 2:14
Mother embrace thy children, bring them vp with ioy. As a doue confirme their feete: because I haue chosen thee, sayth our Lord. 4 Esd. 2:15
And I wil raise againe the dead out of their places, and out of the monumentes I wil bring them forth, because I haue knowen my name in Israel. 4 Esd. 2:16
Feare not o mother of the children, because I haue chosen thee, saith our Lord. 4 Esd. 2:17
Pause and rest my people, because thy rest shal come. 4 Esd. 2:24
Be pleasant thou mother with thy children, because I wil deliuer thee sayth our Lord. 4 Esd. 2:30
Remember thy children that sleepe, for I wil bring them out of the sides of the earth, & wil doe mercie with them: because I am merciful, sayth our Lord omnipotent. 4 Esd. 2:31
Embrace thy children til I come, & shew them mercie: because my fountaines runne ouer, and my grace shal not faile. 4 Esd. 2:32
And therfore, I say vnto you gentiles, which heare, and vnderstand, Looke for your pastor, he wil geue you the rest of eternitie: because he is at hand, that shal come in the end of the world. 4 Esd. 2:34
Be ye readie for the rewardes of the kingdom, because perpetual light shal shine to you for time euerlasting. 4 Esd. 2:35
because I saw the desolation of Sion, and the abundance of them that dwelt in Babylon. 4 Esd. 3:2
because I saw how thou bearest with their sinne, and didst spare them that did impiously, and didst destroy thine owne people, and preserue thine enimies, and didst not signifie it. 4 Esd. 3:30
And he answered me, and sayd: If thou search very much, thou shalt often meruail: because the world hastening hasteneth to passe, 4 Esd. 4:26
and can not comprehend the thinges which in times to come are promised to the iust: because this world is ful of iniustice and infirmities. 4 Esd. 4:27
Because the grayne of il seede hath bene sowen in the hart of Adam from the beginning: and how much impietie hath it ingendered vntil now, and doth ingender vntil the floore come? 4 Esd. 4:30
And Ieremiel the Archangel answered to those things, and sayd: When the number of the sedes in you shal be filled, because he hath weyed the world in a balance, 4 Esd. 4:36
Therfore when it speaketh be not thou afrayd, because of the end is the word, and the fundation of the earth vnderstood, 4 Esd. 6:15
And al these thinges I haue sayd before thee o Lord, because thou didst create the world for vs. 4 Esd. 6:55
For manie present doe perish, because the law of God which was set before, is neglected. 4 Esd. 7:20
But now the mind groweth with us, and by reason of this we are tormented, because we perish and know it. 4 Esd. 7:64
For how great a time hath the Most High been longsuffering with them that inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he hath foreordained! 4 Esd. 7:74
The first way, because they have despised the law of the Most High. 4 Esd. 7:81
The second way, because they cannot now make a good returning that they may live. 4 Esd. 7:82
The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned whilst living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times. 4 Esd. 7:87
The first order, because they have striven with great labour to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death. 4 Esd. 7:92
The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaiteth them. 4 Esd. 7:93
The seventh order, which is greater than all the aforesaid orders, because they shall rejoice with confidence, and because they shall be bold without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom in their lifetime they served, and from whom they shall receive their reward in glory. 4 Esd. 7:98
Because there should not be sorow vnto their perdition, as there shal be ioy vpon them, to whom saluation is perswaded. 4 Esd. 7:131
and he is long suffering, because he sheweth long sufferance to them that haue sinned, as it were with their owne workes: 4 Esd. 7:134
and he is bountiful, because he wil geue according to exigentes: 4 Esd. 7:135
and of freat mercie, because he multiplieth more mercies to them that are present, and that are past, and that are to come. 4 Esd. 7:136
Therfore wil I begin to pray before thee for me, & for them: because I see our defaultes that inhabite the earth. 4 Esd. 8:17
Because we and our fatheres languish with such diseases: but thou for sinners shalt be called merciful. 4 Esd. 8:31
because I wil not in dede thinke vpon the worke of them that haue sinned before death, before the iudgement, before perdition: 4 Esd. 8:38
so likewise also man who made with thy handes, and thou named his image: because thou art likened to him, for whom thou hast made al thinges, and hast likened him to the seede of the husbandman. 4 Esd. 8:44
because thou hast humbled thyself as becometh thee: & hast not iudged thyself, that among the iust thou maist be very much glorified. 4 Esd. 8:49
For which cause manie miseries, and miserable thinges shal be done to them that inhabite the world in the later dayes: because they haue walked in much pride. 4 Esd. 8:50
shal be leaft out of the foresayd dangers, and shal see my saluation in my land, and in my costes, because I haue sancitifed my selfe from the world. 4 Esd. 9:8
And he ansvvered me, and sayd: Like as the field so also the sedes: and as the flovvers, such also the colours: and as the workeman, such also the worke: and such as the husbandman, such is the husbandrie: because it was the time of the world. 4 Esd. 9:17
And I considered the world, and behold there was danger because of the cogitations that came in it. 4 Esd. 9:20
Let the multitude therfore perish, which was borne without cause, and let my kernel be kept, & my plant: because I finished it with much labour. 4 Esd. 9:22
For our fathers receiuing the law obserued it not, and kept not my ordinances, and the fruite of the law did not appeare: for it could not, because it was thine. 4 Esd. 9:32
Suffer me my Lord, that I may lament myselfe, & adde sorrow: because I am of a very pensiue mynde, and am humbled exceedingly. 4 Esd. 9:41
Because Sion our mother is sorroweful with al sorrowe, and humbled, and mourneth most bitterly. 4 Esd. 10:7
And if thou say vnto me, that my mourning is not lyke the earthes: because I haue lost the fruite of my wombe, which I bare with sorrowes, and brought forth with paynes: 4 Esd. 10:12
and that which is greatest of al, the seale of Sion, because she is vnsealed of her glorie: For she is also deliuered into the handes of them that hate vs. 4 Esd. 10:23
Because thou hast forsaken me, and I in dede haue done according to thy wordes, & went out into the field: & behold, I haue seene, & doe see that which I cannot vtter. And he sayd to me: 4 Esd. 10:32
because I haue seene thinges that I knew not, & I doe heare thinges that I know not. 4 Esd. 10:35
Heare me, and I wil teach thee, and wil tel thee of what thinges thou art afrayd: because the Highest hath reuealed vnto thee manie mysteries. 4 Esd. 10:38
And because she tolde thee of the fal of her sonne, this is the interpretation. 4 Esd. 10:43
And behold, thou hast seene the similitude of her: and because she lamented her sonne, thou beganst to comfort her: and of these thinges that haue chanced, these were to be opened to thee. 4 Esd. 10:49
And now the Highest seeth that thou wast sorie from the hart: and because with thy whole hart thou sufferest for her, he hath shewed thee the clearnes of her glorie, and the fayrenes of her beautie. 4 Esd. 10:50
And the same my sonne shal reproue the thinges that the gentils haue inuented, these their impieties which came nere to the tempest, because of their euil cogitaitons, and torments wherewith they shal begin to be tormented. 4 Esd. 13:37
And because he gouerneth it, and the thinges that are brought in times, & I sate there three dayes. 4 Esd. 13:58
Because the world hath lost his youth, and the times draw nere to waxe old. 4 Esd. 14:10
Because thy law is burnt, therefore no man knowth the workes that haue bene done by thee, or that shal begin. 4 Esd. 14:21
and see that they be written in paper, because they be faithful and true. 4 Esd. 15:2
Because euerie incredulous person shal dye in his incredulitie. 4 Esd. 15:4
Because iniquitie hath fully polluted ouer al the earth, and their hurtful workes are accomplished. 4 Esd. 15:6
The husbandmen that til the ground shal mourne, because their seedes shal perish by blasting, and haile, and by a terible starre. 4 Esd. 15:13
Because the sword is at hand and the destruction of them, and nation shal rise vp against nation to fight, & sword in their handes. (Matt. 24/ Luke 21) 4 Esd. 15:15
Because of their prides the cities shal be trubled, the houses raised, the men shal feare. 4 Esd. 15:18
because the Lord knoweth al that sinne against him; therefore hath he deliuered them into death and into slaughter. 4 Esd. 15:26
For now are euils come vpon the world, and you shal tarrie in them. For God wil not deliuer you, because you haue sinned against him. 4 Esd. 15:27
woe be to thee thou wretch, because thou art like to her, and hast adorned thy daughters in fornication, to please & glorie in thy louers, which haue desired alwayes to fornicate with thee. 4 Esd. 15:47
Gird yourselues with sackclothes and shirtes of heare, & mourne for your children, & be sorie: because your destruction is at hand. 4 Esd. 16:2
because his right hand is strong which bendeth the bow, his arrowes be sharpe that are shot of him, they shal not misse, when they shal begine to be shot into the endes of the earth. 4 Esd. 16:13
And the earth shal be left desolate, and the fildes thereof shal waxe old, & the wayes thereof, and al the pathes thereof shal bringforth thornes, because no man shal passe by it. 4 Esd. 16:33
for foreners shal reape their fruites, & shal violently take their goodes, and ouerthrow their houses, and lead theire children captiue, because in captiuitie, and famine they beget their children. 4 Esd. 16:47
Let not the sinner say he hath not sinned: because he shal burne coales of fire vpon his head, that sayth I haue not sinned before our Lord God and his glorie. 4 Esd. 16:54
because they shal waste and spoyle the goodes, and shal cast them out of their houses. 4 Esd. 16:73
Doe not feare, nor stagger, because God is your guide. 4 Esd. 16:76