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The Anointing

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1 John 2:27

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

James 5:14

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

Isaiah 61:1–11

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

1 John 2:20

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

Mark 6:13

They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.

1 Samuel 16:13

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

Joel 2:28

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

Exodus 29:7

Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

Acts 10:38

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Psalms 23:1–6

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Psalms 89:20

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

Acts 19:11–12

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, — read the full passage →

Isaiah 10:27

It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

John 3:1–36

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Nahum 1:7–9

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 8:12

He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

Exodus 40:9

“You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

Psalms 45:7

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

1 Kings 19:16

You shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.

1 John 2:15

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Numbers 12:6

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

Romans 10:1–21

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

Luke 7:46

You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

Leviticus 8:10

Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

Exodus 25:6

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

Exodus 25:1–40

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

1 John 1:8–9

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 1:17

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

2 Corinthians 1:21

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

Acts 4:27

“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Isn’t it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

Leviticus 8:30

Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

2 Corinthians 1:21–22

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; — read the full passage →

James 4:7

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Ezekiel 47:1–23

He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar. — read the full passage →

Psalms 105:15

“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

Genesis 28:18

Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

John 3:16–17

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 →

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Ruth 3:3

Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Psalms 133:1–3

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

Numbers 4:16

“The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.”

Leviticus 16:32

The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.

Acts 16:1–40

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Revelation 12:1–17

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

Revelation 11:1–19

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 1:9

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

Micah 6:15

You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

Exodus 40:15

You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

Psalms 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

1 Samuel 9:16

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry has come to me.”

Psalms 20:6

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

Genesis 1:1–31

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 1:8–9

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom. — read the full passage →

Luke 7:38

Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

Matthew 6:17

But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

1 Chronicles 16:22

“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

1 Kings 19:1–21

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →

Romans 8:9

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Luke 4:18–19

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Exodus 29:29

“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

Romans 1:1–32

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Luke 10:34

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Zechariah 4:6

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Leviticus 4:3

if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.

Acts 9:22

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Revelation 1:1–20

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 →

1 Corinthians 11:20

When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

Jeremiah 33:20–21

Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; — read the full passage →

Psalms 104:15

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

Leviticus 8:11

He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

Exodus 30:25

You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

Exodus 28:41

You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.

John 12:3

Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

Zechariah 11:17

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

Joel 2:27

You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.

Daniel 10:3

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Psalms 2:2

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Judges 9:15

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

Exodus 30:32–33

It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you. — read the full passage →

1 John 4:13

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

James 5:14–15

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →

Matthew 25:1–13

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Zechariah 14:1–21

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

1 Kings 1:39

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”

Judges 9:8

The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

Exodus 40:13–15

You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. — read the full passage →

Exodus 30:31

You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

John 1:41

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

1 Chronicles 16:11

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Exodus 30:26

You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,

Acts 18:4

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Acts 17:2–3

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, — read the full passage →

Joshua 6:24

They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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