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Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

…and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

…as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”

Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.

For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it very easily.

They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may encourage your hearts.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may encourage your hearts.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

May the Lord grant Onesiphorus His mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me in Ephesus.

I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.

So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

Consider ships as well. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.