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So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,
because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Genesis 2:3 ESV

Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
Genesis 2:23 ESV

And he said,
“I heard the sound of you in the garden,
and I was afraid,
because I was naked,
and I hid myself.”
Genesis 3:10 ESV

The Lord God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:14 ESV

And to Adam he said,
"Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
Genesis 3:17 ESV

The man called his wife's name Eve,
because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:20 ESV

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,
the Lord said in his heart,
“I will never again curse the ground because of man,
for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Genesis 8:21 ESV

Therefore its name was called Babel,
because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth.
And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9 ESV

Say you are my sister,
that it may go well with me because of you,
and that my life may be spared for your sake.”
Genesis 12:13 ESV

But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai,
Abram's wife.
Genesis 12:17 ESV

And the angel of the Lord said to her,
“Behold,
you are pregnant and shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
Genesis 16:11 ESV

Then the Lord said,
"Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,
Genesis 18:20 ESV

For we are about to destroy this place,
because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord,
and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
Genesis 19:13 ESV

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him,
“Behold,
you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken,
for she is a man's wife.”
Genesis 20:3 ESV

Abraham said,
“I did it because I thought,
‘There is no fear of God at all in this place,
and they will kill me because of my wife.’ Genesis 20:11 ESV

For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah,
Abraham's wife.
Genesis 20:18 ESV

But God said to Abraham,
“Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman.
Whatever Sarah says to you,
do as she tells you,
for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Genesis 21:12 ESV

And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also,
because he is your offspring.”
Genesis 21:13 ESV

Therefore that place was called Beersheba,
because there both of them swore an oath.
Genesis 21:31 ESV

and said,
“By myself I have sworn,
declares the Lord,
because you have done this and have not withheld your son,
your only son,
Genesis 22:16 ESV

and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,
because you have obeyed my voice.”
Genesis 22:18 ESV

And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife,
because she was barren.
And the Lord granted his prayer,
and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis 25:21 ESV

Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game,
but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25:28 ESV

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge,
my commandments,
my statutes,
and my laws.”
Genesis 26:5 ESV

When the men of the place asked him about his wife,
he said,
“She is my sister,”
for he feared to say,
“My wife,”
thinking,
“lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,”
because she was attractive in appearance.
Genesis 26:7 ESV

So Abimelech called Isaac and said,
“Behold,
she is your wife.
How then could you say,
‘She is my sister’?”
Isaac said to him,
"Because I thought,
‘Lest I die because of her.’”
Genesis 26:9 ESV

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen,
saying,
“The water is ours.”
So he called the name of the well Esek,
because they contended with him.
Genesis 26:20 ESV

But Isaac said to his son,
“How is it that you have found it so quickly,
my son?”
He answered,
"Because the Lord your God granted me success.”
Genesis 27:20 ESV

And he did not recognize him,
because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands.
So he blessed him.
Genesis 27:23 ESV

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him,
and Esau said to himself,
“The days of mourning for my father are approaching;
then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 27:41 ESV

Then Rebekah said to Isaac,
“I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.
If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these,
one of the women of the land,
what good will my life be to me?”
Genesis 27:46 ESV

And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night,
because the sun had set.
Taking one of the stones of the place,
he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
Genesis 28:11 ESV

Then Laban said to Jacob,
"Because you are my kinsman,
should you therefore serve me for nothing?
Tell me,
what shall your wages be?”
Genesis 29:15 ESV

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel,
and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Genesis 29:20 ESV

And Leah conceived and bore a son,
and she called his name Reuben,
for she said,
"Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction;
for now my husband will love me.”
Genesis 29:32 ESV

She conceived again and bore a son,
and said,
"Because the Lord has heard that I am hated,
he has given me this son also.”
And she called his name Simeon.
Genesis 29:33 ESV

Again she conceived and bore a son,
and said,
“Now this time my husband will be attached to me,
because I have borne him three sons.”
Therefore his name was called Levi.
Genesis 29:34 ESV

Leah said,
“God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.”
So she called his name Issachar.
Genesis 30:18 ESV

Then Leah said,
“God has endowed me with a good endowment;
now my husband will honor me,
because I have borne him six sons.”
So she called his name Zebulun.
Genesis 30:20 ESV

But Laban said to him,
“If I have found favor in your sight,
I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
Genesis 30:27 ESV

And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house,
but why did you steal my gods?”
Genesis 31:30 ESV

Jacob answered and said to Laban,
"Because I was afraid,
for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
Genesis 31:31 ESV

The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel,
limping because of his hip.
Genesis 32:31 ESV

Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket,
because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.
Genesis 32:32 ESV

Please accept my blessing that is brought to you,
because God has dealt graciously with me,
and because I have enough.”
Thus he urged him,
and he took it.
Genesis 33:11 ESV

The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it,
and the men were indignant and very angry,
because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter,
for such a thing must not be done.
Genesis 34:7 ESV

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully,
because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
Genesis 34:13 ESV

And the young man did not delay to do the thing,
because he delighted in Jacob's daughter.
Now he was the most honored of all his father's house.
Genesis 34:19 ESV

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34:27 ESV

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,
because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:7 ESV

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together.
The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.
Genesis 36:7 ESV

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons,
because he was the son of his old age.
And he made him a robe of many colors.
Genesis 37:3 ESV

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge,
and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.
Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
Genesis 39:6 ESV

But he refused and said to his master's wife,
“Behold,
because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house,
and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Genesis 39:8 ESV

He is not greater in this house than I am,
nor has he kept back anything from me except you,
because you are his wife.
How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
Genesis 39:9 ESV

The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge,
because the Lord was with him.
And whatever he did,
the Lord made it succeed.
Genesis 39:23 ESV

Moreover,
all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain,
because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Genesis 41:57 ESV

And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house,
and they said,
“It is because of the money,
which was replaced in our sacks the first time,
that we are brought in,
so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys.”
Genesis 43:18 ESV

They served him by himself,
and them by themselves,
and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves,
because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews,
for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Genesis 43:32 ESV

And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here,
for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:5 ESV

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh,
for all the Egyptians sold their fields,
because the famine was severe on them.
The land became Pharaoh's.
Genesis 47:20 ESV

Unstable as water,
you shall not have preeminence,
because you went up to your father's bed;
then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!
Genesis 49:4 ESV

‘Say to Joseph,
“Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin,
because they did evil to you.”’ And now,
please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.”
Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Genesis 50:17 ESV

“A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be comforted,
because they are no more.”
Matthew 2:18 ESV

And the rain fell,
and the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat on that house,
but it did not fall,
because it had been founded on the rock.
Matthew 7:25 ESV

When he saw the crowds,
he had compassion for them,
because they were harassed and helpless,
like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 9:36 ESV

The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward,
and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.
Matthew 10:41 ESV

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple,
truly,
I say to you,
he will by no means lose his reward.”
Matthew 10:42 ESV

Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done,
because they did not repent.
Matthew 11:20 ESV

This is why I speak to them in parables,
because seeing they do not see,
and hearing they do not hear,
nor do they understand.
Matthew 13:13 ESV

And he did not do many mighty works there,
because of their unbelief.
Matthew 13:58 ESV

because John had been saying to him,
“It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Matthew 14:4 ESV

And though he wanted to put him to death,
he feared the people,
because they held him to be a prophet.
Matthew 14:5 ESV

And the king was sorry,
but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given.
Matthew 14:9 ESV

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said,
“I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.
And I am unwilling to send them away hungry,
lest they faint on the way.”
Matthew 15:32 ESV

He said to them,
"Because of your little faith.
For truly,
I say to you,
if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed,
you will say to this mountain,
‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move,
and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20 ESV

Then his master summoned him and said to him,
‘You wicked servant!
I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.
Matthew 18:32 ESV

He said to them,
"Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives,
but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew 19:8 ESV

And although they were seeking to arrest him,
they feared the crowds,
because they held him to be a prophet.
Matthew 21:46 ESV

But Jesus answered them,
“You are wrong,
because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Matthew 22:29 ESV

And because lawlessness will be increased,
the love of many will grow cold.
Matthew 24:12 ESV

Then Jesus said to them,
“You will all fall away because of me this night.
For it is written,
‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ Matthew 26:31 ESV

Peter answered him,
“Though they all fall away because of you,
I will never fall away.”
Matthew 26:33 ESV

Besides,
while he was sitting on the judgment seat,
his wife sent word to him,
“Have nothing to do with that righteous man,
for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”
Matthew 27:19 ESV

And he healed many who were sick with various diseases,
and cast out many demons.
And he would not permit the demons to speak,
because they knew him.
Mark 1:34 ESV

And when they could not get near him because of the crowd,
they removed the roof above him,
and when they had made an opening,
they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
Mark 2:4 ESV

And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,
lest they crush him,
Mark 3:9 ESV

But when the grain is ripe,
at once he puts in the sickle,
because the harvest has come.”
Mark 4:29 ESV

And he marveled because of their unbelief.
And he went about among the villages teaching.
Mark 6:6 ESV

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias,
his brother Philip's wife,
because he had married her.
Mark 6:17 ESV

And the king was exceedingly sorry,
but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.
Mark 6:26 ESV

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd,
and he had compassion on them,
because they were like sheep without a shepherd.
And he began to teach them many things.
Mark 6:34 ESV

“I have compassion on the crowd,
because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.
Mark 8:2 ESV

John said to him,
“Teacher,
we saw someone casting out demons in your name,
and we tried to stop him,
because he was not following us.”
Mark 9:38 ESV

For truly,
I say to you,
whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.
Mark 9:41 ESV

And Jesus said to them,
"Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
Mark 10:5 ESV

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him,
for they feared him,
because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.
Mark 11:18 ESV

Jesus said to them,
“Is this not the reason you are wrong,
because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
Mark 12:24 ESV

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table,
and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart,
because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
Mark 16:14 ESV

But they had no child,
because Elizabeth was barren,
and both were advanced in years.
Luke 1:7 ESV

And behold,
you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place,
because you did not believe my words,
which will be fulfilled in their time.”
Luke 1:20 ESV

because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high Luke 1:78 ESV

And Joseph also went up from Galilee,
from the town of Nazareth,
to Judea,
to the city of David,
which is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and lineage of David,
Luke 2:4 ESV

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger,
because there was no place for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 ESV

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Luke 4:18 ESV

And demons also came out of many,
crying,
“You are the Son of God!”
But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak,
because they knew that he was the Christ.
Luke 4:41 ESV

but finding no way to bring him in,
because of the crowd,
they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus.
Luke 5:19 ESV

he is like a man building a house,
who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock.
And when a flood arose,
the stream broke against that house and could not shake it,
because it had been well built.
Luke 6:48 ESV

And some fell on the rock,
and as it grew up,
it withered away,
because it had no moisture.
Luke 8:6 ESV

Then his mother and his brothers came to him,
but they could not reach him because of the crowd.
Luke 8:19 ESV

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening,
and he was perplexed,
because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,
Luke 9:7 ESV

John answered,
“Master,
we saw someone casting out demons in your name,
and we tried to stop him,
because he does not follow with us.”
Luke 9:49 ESV

But the people did not receive him,
because his face was set toward Jerusalem.
Luke 9:53 ESV

I tell you,
though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend,
yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
Luke 11:8 ESV

And he answered them,
“Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans,
because they suffered in this way?
Luke 13:2 ESV

But the ruler of the synagogue,
indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath,
said to the people,
“There are six days in which work ought to be done.
Come on those days and be healed,
and not on the Sabbath day.”
Luke 13:14 ESV

and you will be blessed,
because they cannot repay you.
For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Luke 14:14 ESV

And he said to him,
‘Your brother has come,
and your father has killed the fattened calf,
because he has received him back safe and sound.’ Luke 15:27 ESV

Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
Luke 17:9 ESV

yet because this widow keeps bothering me,
I will give her justice,
so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
Luke 18:5 ESV

And he was seeking to see who Jesus was,
but on account of the crowd he could not,
because he was small in stature.
Luke 19:3 ESV

As they heard these things,
he proceeded to tell a parable,
because he was near to Jerusalem,
and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.
Luke 19:11 ESV

And he said to him,
‘Well done,
good servant!
Because you have been faithful in a very little,
you shall have authority over ten cities.’ Luke 19:17 ESV

for I was afraid of you,
because you are a severe man.
You take what you did not deposit,
and reap what you did not sow.’ Luke 19:21 ESV

and tear you down to the ground,
you and your children within you.
And they will not leave one stone upon another in you,
because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Luke 19:44 ESV

for they cannot die anymore,
because they are equal to angels and are sons of God,
being sons of the resurrection.
Luke 20:36 ESV

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars,
and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
Luke 21:25 ESV

Now when these things begin to take place,
straighten up and raise your heads,
because your redemption is drawing near.”
Luke 21:28 ESV

When Herod saw Jesus,
he was very glad,
for he had long desired to see him,
because he had heard about him,
and he was hoping to see some sign done by him.
Luke 23:8 ESV

(John bore witness about him,
and cried out,
“This was he of whom I said,
‘He who comes after me ranks before me,
because he was before me.’”) John 1:15 ESV

This is he of whom I said,
‘After me comes a man who ranks before me,
because he was before me.’ John 1:30 ESV

Jesus answered him,
"Because I said to you,
‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe?
You will see greater things than these.”
John 1:50 ESV

But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them,
because he knew all people John 2:24 ESV

Whoever believes in him is not condemned,
but whoever does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:18 ESV

And this is the judgment:
the light has come into the world,
and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 3:19 ESV

John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim,
because water was plentiful there,
and people were coming and being baptized John 3:23 ESV

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony,
“He told me all that I ever did.”
John 4:39 ESV

And many more believed because of his word.
John 4:41 ESV

They said to the woman,
“It is no longer because of what you said that we believe,
for we have heard for ourselves,
and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
John 4:42 ESV

And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus,
because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:16 ESV

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him,
because not only was he breaking the Sabbath,
but he was even calling God his own Father,
making himself equal with God.
John 5:18 ESV

And he has given him authority to execute judgment,
because he is the Son of Man.
John 5:27 ESV

“I can do nothing on my own.
As I hear,
I judge,
and my judgment is just,
because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:30 ESV

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life;
and it is they that bear witness about me,
John 5:39 ESV

And a large crowd was following him,
because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
John 6:2 ESV

The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.
John 6:18 ESV

Jesus answered them,
“Truly,
truly,
I say to you,
you are seeking me,
not because you saw signs,
but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
John 6:26 ESV

So the Jews grumbled about him,
because he said,
“I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 6:41 ESV

As the living Father sent me,
and I live because of the Father,
so whoever feeds on me,
he also will live because of me.
John 6:57 ESV

After this Jesus went about in Galilee.
He would not go about in Judea,
because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
John 7:1 ESV

The world cannot hate you,
but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
John 7:7 ESV

If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision,
so that the law of Moses may not be broken,
are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
John 7:23 ESV

So they were seeking to arrest him,
but no one laid a hand on him,
because his hour had not yet come.
John 7:30 ESV

Now this he said about the Spirit,
whom those who believed in him were to receive,
for as yet the Spirit had not been given,
because Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 7:39 ESV

These words he spoke in the treasury,
as he taught in the temple;
but no one arrested him,
because his hour had not yet come.
John 8:20 ESV

I know that you are offspring of Abraham;
yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
John 8:37 ESV

Why do you not understand what I say?
It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
John 8:43 ESV

You are of your father the devil,
and your will is to do your father's desires.
He was a murderer from the beginning,
and does not stand in the truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he lies,
he speaks out of his own character,
for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44 ESV

But because I tell the truth,
you do not believe me.
John 8:45 ESV

(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews,
for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ,
he was to be put out of the synagogue.)
John 9:22 ESV

He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
John 10:13 ESV

For this reason the Father loves me,
because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
John 10:17 ESV

There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.
John 10:19 ESV

but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
John 10:26 ESV

The Jews answered him,
“It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy,
because you,
being a man,
make yourself God.”
John 10:33 ESV

do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world,
‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,
‘I am the Son of God’?
John 10:36 ESV

Jesus answered,
“Are there not twelve hours in the day?
If anyone walks in the day,
he does not stumble,
because he sees the light of this world.
John 11:9 ESV

But if anyone walks in the night,
he stumbles,
because the light is not in him.”
John 11:10 ESV

He said this,
not because he cared about the poor,
but because he was a thief,
and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.
John 12:6 ESV

because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
John 12:11 ESV

Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
John 12:41 ESV

Some thought that,
because Judas had the moneybag,
Jesus was telling him,
“Buy what we need for the feast,”
or that he should give something to the poor.
John 13:29 ESV

“Truly,
truly,
I say to you,
whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do;
and greater works than these will he do,
because I am going to the Father.
John 14:12 ESV

even the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive,
because it neither sees him nor knows him.
You know him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:17 ESV

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more,
but you will see me.
Because I live,
you also will live.
John 14:19 ESV

You heard me say to you,
‘I am going away,
and I will come to you.’ If you loved me,
you would have rejoiced,
because I am going to the Father,
for the Father is greater than I.
John 14:28 ESV

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
John 15:3 ESV

If you were of the world,
the world would love you as its own;
but because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.
John 15:19 ESV

But all these things they will do to you on account of my name,
because they do not know him who sent me.
John 15:21 ESV

And you also will bear witness,
because you have been with me from the beginning.
John 15:27 ESV

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father,
nor me.
John 16:3 ESV

But I have said these things to you,
that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning,
because I was with you.
John 16:4 ESV

But because I have said these things to you,
sorrow has filled your heart.
John 16:6 ESV

concerning sin,
because they do not believe in me;
John 16:9 ESV

concerning righteousness,
because I go to the Father,
and you will see me no longer;
John 16:10 ESV

concerning judgment,
because the ruler of this world is judged.
John 16:11 ESV

When a woman is giving birth,
she has sorrow because her hour has come,
but when she has delivered the baby,
she no longer remembers the anguish,
for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
John 16:21 ESV

for the Father himself loves you,
because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
John 16:27 ESV

I have given them your word,
and the world has hated them because they are not of the world,
just as I am not of the world.
John 17:14 ESV

Father,
I desire that they also,
whom you have given me,
may be with me where I am,
to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:24 ESV

Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire,
because it was cold,
and they were standing and warming themselves.
Peter also was with them,
standing and warming himself.
John 18:18 ESV

The Jews answered him,
“We have a law,
and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”
John 19:7 ESV

So because of the Jewish day of Preparation,
since the tomb was close at hand,
they laid Jesus there.
John 19:42 ESV

Jesus said to him,
“Have you believed because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
John 20:29 ESV

He said to them,
“Cast the net on the right side of the boat,
and you will find some.”
So they cast it,
and now they were not able to haul it in,
because of the quantity of fish.
John 21:6 ESV

He said to him the third time,
“Simon,
son of John,
do you love me?”
Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time,
“Do you love me?”
and he said to him,
“Lord,
you know everything;
you know that I love you.”
Jesus said to him,
“Feed my sheep.
John 21:17 ESV