12,750 verses contain “For” (in the KJV: 10,422, in the BSB: 7,841) — showing 11,501–11,600
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And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.
For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.
Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.
Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.
He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, his ways are of another fashion.
For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery,
For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality.
And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
But the ungodly shall be punished according to their own imaginations, which have neglected the righteous, and forsaken the Lord.
And blessed is the eunuch, which with his hands hath wrought no iniquity, nor imagined wicked things against God: for unto him shall be given the special gift of faith, and an inheritance in the temple of the Lord more acceptable to his mind.
For glorious is the fruit of good labours: and the root of wisdom shall never fall away.
As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.
For though they live long, yet shall they be nothing regarded: and their last age shall be without honour.
For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation.
The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit unprofitable, not ripe to eat, yea, meet for nothing.
For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years.
For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence doth undermine the simple mind.
For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.
For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.
When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for.
But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High.
Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord’s hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies.
He shall take holiness for an invincible shield.
His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise.
For power is given you of the Lord, and sovereignty from the Highest, who shall try your works, and search out your counsels.
Horribly and speedily shall he come upon you: for a sharp judgment shall be to them that be in high places.
For he which is Lord over all shall fear no man’s person, neither shall he stand in awe of any man’s greatness: for he hath made the small and great, and careth for all alike.
To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.
For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.
For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love;
If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.
As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell you, and will not hide mysteries from you: but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into light, and will not pass over the truth.
For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.
For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
God hath granted me to speak as I would, and to conceive as is meet for the things that are given me: because it is he that leadeth unto wisdom, and directeth the wise.
For in his hand are both we and our words; all wisdom also, and knowledge of workmanship.
For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are, namely, to know how the world was made, and the operation of the elements:
For wisdom is more moving than any motion: she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness.
For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.
For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.
For after this cometh night: but vice shall not prevail against wisdom.
For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works.
And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.
For her sake I shall have estimation among the multitude, and honour with the elders, though I be young.
For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.
For I thy servant and son of thine handmaid am a feeble person, and of a short time, and too young for the understanding of judgment and laws.
For though a man be never so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.
For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power.
For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is?
For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee, and were saved through wisdom.
She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value.
When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit,
Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season;
For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.
For instead of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,
For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for:
For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.
For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.