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rsv@Genesis:10:14 @ Pathru'sim, Caslu'him (whence came the Philistines), and Caph'torim.

rsv@Genesis:14:7 @ then they turned back and came to Enmish'pat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the Amal'ekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Haz'azon-ta'mar.

rsv@Genesis:46:33 @ When Pharaoh calls you, and says, `What is your occupation?'

rsv@Genesis:47:3 @ Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."

rsv@Genesis:49:17 @ Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.

rsv@Exodus:25:9 @ According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

rsv@Exodus:25:40 @ And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.

rsv@Numbers:8:4 @ And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

rsv@Numbers:21:4 @ From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way.

rsv@Numbers:22:24 @ Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:8 @ They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.

rsv@Joshua:9:5 @ with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes; and all their provisions were dry and moldy.

rsv@2Kings:6:32 @ Eli'sha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence; but before the messenger arrived Eli'sha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"

rsv@2Kings:9:33 @ He said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down; and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.

rsv@2Kings:16:10 @ When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tig'lath-pile'ser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uri'ah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:12 @ Pathru'sim, Caslu'him (whence came the Philis'tines), and Caph'torim.

rsv@Job:4:5 @ But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

rsv@Job:6:11 @ What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

rsv@Job:8:13 @ Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.

rsv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

rsv@Job:13:27 @ Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.

rsv@Job:18:10 @ A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

rsv@Job:19:8 @ He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

rsv@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?

rsv@Job:24:13 @ "There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.

rsv@Job:28:7 @ "That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.

rsv@Job:30:13 @ They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.

rsv@Job:33:11 @ he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.'

rsv@Job:38:20 @ that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?

rsv@Job:42:11 @ Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

rsv@Psalms:7:17 @ His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends. [ (Psalms strkjv@7:18) I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. ]

rsv@Psalms:8:9 @ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea. [ (Psalms strkjv@8:10) O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! ]

rsv@Psalms:16:11 @ For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit. [ (Psalms strkjv@16:12) Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. ]

rsv@Psalms:17:6 @ My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.

rsv@Psalms:23:4 @ he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

rsv@Psalms:25:5 @ Make me to know thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

rsv@Psalms:25:11 @ All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:27:12 @ Teach me thy way, O LORD; and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:37:8 @ Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

rsv@Psalms:40:2 @ I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

rsv@Psalms:77:20 @ Thy way was through the sea, thy path through the great waters; yet thy footprints were unseen. [ (Psalms strkjv@77:21) Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. ]

rsv@Psalms:78:51 @ He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

rsv@Psalms:119:35 @ Lead me in the path of thy commandments, for I delight in it.

rsv@Psalms:119:105 @ Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

rsv@Psalms:139:4 @ Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

rsv@Psalms:142:4 @ When my spirit is faint, thou knowest my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

rsv@Psalms:143:11 @ Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God! Let thy good spirit lead me on a level path!

rsv@Proverbs:1:15 @ my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths;

rsv@Proverbs:2:8 @ guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.

rsv@Proverbs:2:9 @ Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

rsv@Proverbs:2:13 @ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

rsv@Proverbs:2:15 @ men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

rsv@Proverbs:2:18 @ for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;

rsv@Proverbs:2:19 @ none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.

rsv@Proverbs:2:20 @ So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:3:6 @ In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

rsv@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

rsv@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

rsv@Proverbs:4:14 @ Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

rsv@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

rsv@Proverbs:4:26 @ Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.

rsv@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

rsv@Proverbs:5:6 @ she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

rsv@Proverbs:5:21 @ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.

rsv@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;

rsv@Proverbs:8:2 @ On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;

rsv@Proverbs:8:20 @ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

rsv@Proverbs:10:17 @ He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.

rsv@Proverbs:12:28 @ In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.

rsv@Proverbs:14:17 @ A man of quick temper acts foolishly, but a man of discretion is patient.

rsv@Proverbs:15:19 @ The way of a sluggard is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

rsv@Proverbs:15:24 @ The wise man's path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.

rsv@Proverbs:25:15 @ With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

rsv@Isaiah:2:3 @ and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:3:12 @ My people-- children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.

rsv@Isaiah:11:11 @ In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

rsv@Isaiah:26:7 @ The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

rsv@Isaiah:26:8 @ In the path of thy judgments, O LORD, we wait for thee; thy memorial name is the desire of our soul.

rsv@Isaiah:30:11 @ leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."

rsv@Isaiah:40:14 @ Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

rsv@Isaiah:41:3 @ He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.

rsv@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

rsv@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

rsv@Isaiah:59:8 @ The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked, no one who goes in them knows peace.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, `We will not walk in it.'

rsv@Jeremiah:18:15 @ But my people have forgotten me, they burn incense to false gods; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,

rsv@Jeremiah:23:12 @ Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall; for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:9 @ With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and E'phraim is my first-born.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tah'panhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros,

rsv@Jeremiah:44:15 @ Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:

rsv@Lamentations:3:9 @ he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:47 @ And the host shall stone them and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.

rsv@Ezekiel:29:14 @ and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:14 @ I will make Pathros a desolation, and will set fire to Zo'an, and will execute acts of judgment upon Thebes.

rsv@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.

rsv@Joel:2:7 @ Like warriors they charge, like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way, they do not swerve from their paths.

rsv@Joel:2:8 @ They do not jostle one another, each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.

rsv@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, "Tell us, on whose account this evil has come upon us? What is your occupation? And whence do you come? What is your country? And of what people are you?"

rsv@Micah:2:7 @ Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?

rsv@Micah:4:2 @ and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

rsv@Zechariah:1:10 @ So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, `These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.'

rsv@Zechariah:1:11 @ And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, `We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.'

rsv@Zechariah:6:7 @ When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth.

rsv@Zechariah:11:8 @ In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

rsv@Matthew:3:3 @ For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."

rsv@Matthew:9:16 @ And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.

rsv@Matthew:13:4 @ And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

rsv@Matthew:13:19 @ When any one hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart; this is what was sown along the path.

rsv@Matthew:18:25 @ So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, `Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.'

rsv@Matthew:18:28 @ So his fellow servant fell down and besought him, `Have patience with me, and I will pay you.'

rsv@Matthew:26:67 @ Then they spat in his face, and struck him; and some slapped him,

rsv@Matthew:27:30 @ And they spat upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

rsv@Mark:1:3 @ the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight--"

rsv@Mark:2:21 @ No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.

rsv@Mark:4:4 @ And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

rsv@Mark:4:15 @ And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them.

rsv@Mark:7:32 @ And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue;

rsv@Mark:15:19 @ And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and they knelt down in homage to him.

rsv@Luke:3:4 @ As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

rsv@Luke:8:5 @ "A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it.

rsv@Luke:8:12 @ The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved.

rsv@Luke:8:15 @ And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.

rsv@Luke:21:34 @ "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;

rsv@John:9:6 @ As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man's eyes with the clay,

rsv@Acts:2:29 @ "Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

rsv@Acts:7:8 @ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

rsv@Acts:7:9 @ "And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him,

rsv@Acts:7:44 @ "Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.

rsv@Acts:13:10 @ and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

rsv@Acts:19:25 @ These he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.

rsv@Acts:21:1 @ And when we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Pat'ara.

rsv@Acts:26:3 @ because you are especially familiar with all customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

rsv@Romans:2:4 @ Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

rsv@Romans:2:7 @ to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

rsv@Romans:3:16 @ in their paths are ruin and misery,

rsv@Romans:8:25 @ But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

rsv@Romans:9:5 @ to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.

rsv@Romans:9:22 @ What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,

rsv@Romans:9:28 @ for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and dispatch."

rsv@Romans:12:12 @ Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

rsv@Romans:15:8 @ For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

rsv@Romans:16:14 @ Greet Asyn'critus, Phlegon, Hermes, Pat'robas, Hermas, and the brethren who are with them.

rsv@1Corinthians:10:16 @ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

rsv@1Corinthians:13:4 @ Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;

rsv@2Corinthians:1:6 @ If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

rsv@2Corinthians:12:12 @ The signs of a true apostle were performed among you in all patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

rsv@Galatians:5:22 @ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

rsv@Ephesians:4:2 @ with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love,

rsv@Philippians:2:1 @ So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

rsv@Colossians:1:11 @ May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,

rsv@Colossians:3:12 @ Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,

rsv@1Thessalonians:5:14 @ And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

rsv@1Timothy:1:16 @ but I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

rsv@1Timothy:5:22 @ Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another man's sins; keep yourself pure.

rsv@2Timothy:1:13 @ Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus;

rsv@2Timothy:3:10 @ Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,

rsv@2Timothy:4:2 @ preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.

rsv@Hebrews:4:15 @ For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

rsv@Hebrews:6:12 @ so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

rsv@Hebrews:6:15 @ And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise.

rsv@Hebrews:7:4 @ See how great he is! Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of the spoils.

rsv@Hebrews:8:5 @ They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."

rsv@Hebrews:12:8 @ If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

rsv@Hebrews:12:13 @ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

rsv@James:5:7 @ Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and the late rain.

rsv@James:5:8 @ You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

rsv@James:5:10 @ As an example of suffering and patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

rsv@1Peter:2:20 @ For what credit is it, if when you do wrong and are beaten for it you take it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you take it patiently, you have God's approval.

rsv@1Peter:3:8 @ Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love of the brethren, a tender heart and a humble mind.

rsv@1Peter:3:20 @ who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

rsv@2Peter:2:13 @ suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation, carousing with you.

rsv@Revelation:1:9 @ I John, your brother, who share with you in Jesus the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

rsv@Revelation:2:2 @ "`I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them to be false;

rsv@Revelation:2:3 @ I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

rsv@Revelation:2:19 @ "`I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.

rsv@Revelation:3:10 @ Because you have kept my word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial which is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.