Matthew 3:1-8
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h In those days i John the Baptist came preaching in j the wilderness of Judea,
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k "Repent, for l the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
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For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,
m "The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
n 'Prepare the way of the Lord;
make his paths straight.'"
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Now John wore o a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was p locusts and q wild honey.
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Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,
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and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, r confessing their sins.
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But when he saw many of s the Pharisees and t Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, u "You brood of v vipers! Who warned you to flee from w the wrath to come?
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Bear fruit x in keeping with repentance.
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Matthew 3:1 - 12
In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea.
Mark 1:2 - 8
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way.
Luke 3:2 - 17
During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
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John 1:6 - 7
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
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Joshua 15:61
In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah.
Judges 1:16
And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.
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Matthew 3:1 - 12
In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea.
Mark 1:2 - 8
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way.
Luke 3:1 - 17
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene.
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Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Mark 1:15
And saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
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Matthew 10:7
And proclaim as you go, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Daniel 2:44
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.
Matthew 6:10
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
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John 1:23
He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said.
Isaiah 40:3
A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord ; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways.
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Isaiah 40:3
A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord ; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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2 Kings 1:8
They answered him, "He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite.
Zechariah 13:4
On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated -
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Leviticus 11:22
Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.
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1 Samuel 14:26
And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.
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Acts 19:18
Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
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Matthew 23:13
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
Matthew 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
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Matthew 22:23
The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question.
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Matthew 12:34
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
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Psalms 140:3
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
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Romans 5:9
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 3:6
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
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Acts 26:20
But declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
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