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Nations
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Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. — read the full passage →
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you. — read the full passage →
Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. — read the full passage →
For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations.
All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. — read the full passage →
Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. — read the full passage →
since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. — read the full passage →
I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. — read the full passage →
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
yes, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.
For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
and you shall swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God. There is no one else.
“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. — read the full passage →
The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. — read the full passage →
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →
It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.
Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”
These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.
“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations, — read the full passage →
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — read the full passage →
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. — read the full passage →
The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
“Shall I not punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.
So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your seed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
“Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
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