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Every passage the canon tracker ties to one of the seven threads, placed where it falls in its book: 568 passages across all 66 books, with the 97 key passages named. The Threads page tells each thread’s story; this map shows where it runs.

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The 97 key passages, thread by thread

Thread 1A God Who Cannot Stop Reaching20 passages
  1. Genesis 3:9Where Art Thou?

    And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

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  2. Exodus 34:6The Name of God

    And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

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  3. Judges 2:16Nevertheless: God Raised Judges

    Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

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  4. Nehemiah 8:10Joy of the Lord Your Strength

    Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

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  5. Isaiah 65:2Hands Spread All Day

    I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

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  6. Jeremiah 31:3Drawn with Lovingkindness

    The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

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  7. Ezekiel 33:11As I Live: Divine Oath

    Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

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  8. Hosea 11:8Heart Turned Within Me

    How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

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  9. Nahum 1:7Stronghold in Trouble

    The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

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  10. Habakkuk 2:1I Will Take My Watchpost

    I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

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  11. Zephaniah 3:17He Rejoices With Singing

    The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

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  12. Haggai 1:13I Am With You

    Then spake Haggai the LORD’S messenger in the LORD’S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.

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  13. Matthew 23:37How Often I Would

    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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  14. Luke 15:20Father Ran to Meet Him

    And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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  15. John 6:44Except the Father Draw Him: ἑλκύω

    No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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  16. John 12:32I Will Draw All Men

    And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

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  17. 1 Timothy 2:4God Will Have All Saved

    Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

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  18. 2 Peter 3:9Not Willing Any Should Perish

    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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  19. Revelation 3:20I Stand and Knock

    Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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  20. Revelation 22:17Whosoever Will: Come

    And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

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Thread 2The People Chosen In Him10 passages
  1. Genesis 12:3All Families Blessed

    And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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  2. Genesis 15:6He Believed: Faith-Righteousness

    And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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  3. Genesis 22:18In Thy Seed

    And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

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  4. Deuteronomy 7:6Chosen Nation

    For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

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  5. Romans 8:29Foreknew → Predestined

    For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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  6. Romans 9:6Not All Israel Is Israel

    Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

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  7. Ephesians 1:4Chosen In Him

    According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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  8. Ephesians 1:13Heard · Believed · Sealed

    In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

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  9. 1 Peter 1:2Elect According to Foreknowledge

    Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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  10. Revelation 7:9Every Nation · All Tribes

    After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

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Thread 3The Story Moves Toward A King13 passages
  1. Genesis 3:15Seed of Woman

    And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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  2. 2 Samuel 7:16Throne Established

    And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

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  3. Isaiah 9:6Unto Us A Child

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

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  4. Daniel 2:44The Fifth Kingdom

    And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

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  5. Daniel 7:13Son of Man: Dominion

    I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

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  6. Obadiah 1:21Kingdom Shall Be the LORD's

    And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

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  7. Haggai 2:9Latter Glory Greater

    The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

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  8. Zechariah 9:9King Cometh

    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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  9. Matthew 21:5Triumphal Entry

    Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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  10. Luke 1:32Throne of His Father David

    He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

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  11. 1 Thessalonians 4:17Caught Up: Ἁρπάζω

    Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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  12. Revelation 19:16King of Kings

    And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

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  13. Revelation 20:4Millennial Reign of Christ

    And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

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Thread 4The Dignity of the Real Response17 passages
  1. Genesis 4:7Timshol: You Shall Rule

    If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

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  2. Genesis 15:6He'emin · He Believed

    And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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  3. Deuteronomy 30:19Choose Life

    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

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  4. Joshua 24:15Choose This Day

    And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

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  5. 1 Chronicles 28:9Seek Him: He Will Be Found

    And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

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  6. Habakkuk 2:4Righteous Shall Live by Faith

    Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

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  7. Zephaniah 2:3Seek the Lord: Invite in Doom

    Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.

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  8. Matthew 23:37Ye Would Not

    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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  9. Luke 7:30Rejected Counsel of God

    But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

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  10. John 5:40Ye Will Not Come

    And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

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  11. Acts 7:51Ye Always Resist

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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  12. Acts 16:14Lydia: Heart Opened

    And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

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  13. Philippians 2:12Work Out Your Salvation

    Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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  14. Hebrews 6:4Genuine Spiritual Experience

    For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

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  15. Hebrews 10:26Sinning Deliberately

    For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

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  16. James 2:17Faith Without Works Is Dead

    Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

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  17. Revelation 2:7To Him Who Overcomes: νικῶντι

    He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

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Thread 5The Roadmap Through Scripture10 passages
  1. Genesis 1:1In The Beginning

    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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  2. Ezra 1:1LORD Stirred Cyrus

    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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  3. Esther 4:14For Such a Time as This

    For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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  4. Daniel 2:44Fifth Kingdom: Literal

    And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

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  5. Galatians 3:24Schoolmaster: παιδαγωγός

    Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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  6. Ephesians 1:10Dispensation of Fullness

    That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

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  7. 1 Thessalonians 4:17Pre-Trib Rapture

    Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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  8. 2 Thessalonians 2:7Restrainer Removed

    For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

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  9. Revelation 20:2Thousand Years: Millennium

    And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

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  10. Revelation 20:6Millennial Reign

    Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

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Thread 6Hidden in Him, Revealed with Him11 passages
  1. Exodus 40:34Glory Filled Tabernacle

    Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

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  2. John 1:14Word Dwelt Among Us

    And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

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  3. Romans 8:1No Condemnation In Him

    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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  4. Galatians 2:20Co-Crucified with Christ

    I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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  5. Ephesians 1:13Sealed with Spirit

    In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

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  6. Philippians 3:20Citizen of Heaven

    For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

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  7. Colossians 1:27Christ In You: the Mystery

    To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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  8. Colossians 3:3Hidden with Christ

    For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

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  9. Philemon 1:16No Longer Slave: Brother

    Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

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  10. 2 John 1:9Abide in Doctrine: Have Both

    Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

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  11. Revelation 21:3God Dwells With Them

    And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

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Thread 7Whosoever Will, May Come16 passages
  1. Genesis 12:3All Families Blessed

    And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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  2. Numbers 21:8Whosoever Looketh: Lives

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

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  3. Ecclesiastes 12:13Whole Duty of Man: All

    Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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  4. Isaiah 55:1Ho Every One That Thirsteth

    Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

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  5. Joel 2:32Whosoever Shall Call

    And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

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  6. Zephaniah 3:9All May Call Upon the LORD

    For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

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  7. Matthew 11:28Come Unto Me: All

    Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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  8. John 3:16Whosoever Believeth

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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  9. Acts 2:21Pentecost: Whosoever Calls

    And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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  10. Romans 10:13Whosoever Shall Call

    For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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  11. 1 Timothy 2:4All Men To Be Saved

    Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

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  12. 2 Peter 3:9Not Willing Any Should Perish

    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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  13. 1 John 2:2Propitiation: Whole World

    And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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  14. 3 John 1:11Gaius and Diotrephes

    Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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  15. Jude 1:3Contend for the Faith

    Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

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  16. Revelation 22:17Whosoever Will: Come

    And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

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