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John 1:6
There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
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Jeremiah 5:1
Roam through the streets of Jerusalem. Investigate; search in her squares. If you find one person, any who acts justly, who pursues faithfulness, then I will forgive her.
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Romans 13:11
Besides this, since you know the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, because now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
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Proverbs 8:34
Anyone who listens to me is happy, watching at my doors every day, waiting by the posts of my doorway.
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1 Corinthians 15 34
Come to your senses and stop sinning; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.
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Psalms 43:2-5
For you are the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?Send your light and your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling place.Then I will come to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise you with the lyre, God, my God.Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.
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Proverbs 8:2-3
At the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads, she takes her stand.Beside the gates leading into the city, at the main entrance, she cries out:
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Psalms 77:7-10
“ Will the Lord reject forever and never again show favor?Has his faithful love ceased forever? Is his promise at an end for all generations?Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” SelahSo I say,“ I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
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Ephesians 5:14
for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
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Isaiah 64:7
No one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us melt because of our iniquity.
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Song of Solomon 5 5
I rose to open for my love. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
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Luke 14:21-23
“ So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his servant,‘ Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’“‘ Master,’ the servant said,‘ what you ordered has been done, and there’s still room.’“ Then the master told the servant,‘ Go out into the highways and hedges and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.
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Psalms 22:1-2
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning?My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, by night, yet I have no rest.
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Proverbs 1:20-21
Wisdom calls out in the street; she makes her voice heard in the public squares.She cries out above the commotion; she speaks at the entrance of the city gates:
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Psalms 42:7-9
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.The LORD will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night— a prayer to the God of my life.I will say to God, my rock,“ Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
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Matthew 26:40-41
Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter,“ So, couldn’t you stay awake with me one hour?Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”