Become

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests.

So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.

I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”

“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.

What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.

The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

…and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.

Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

…and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.

And all who heard this wondered in their hearts and asked, “What then will this child become?” For the Lord’s hand was with him.

The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”

Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

…beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”

“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”

By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

…to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!

Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

…when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

…if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

…so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?

For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

So also Christ did not take upon Himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but He was called by the One who said to Him: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.”

…where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham.

…one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

…have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.