12,750 verses contain “for” (in the KJV: 10,422, in the BSB: 7,841) — showing 11,101–11,200
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For if thou hast a desire to have mercy upon us, thou shalt be called merciful, to us namely, that have no works of righteousness.
For the just, which have many good works laid up with thee, shall out of their own deeds receive reward.
For what is man, that thou shouldest take displeasure at him? or what is a corruptible generation, that thou shouldest be so bitter toward it?
For in truth them is no man among them that be born, but he hath dealt wickedly; and among the faithful there is none which hath not done amiss.
For in this, O Lord, thy righteousness and thy goodness shall be declared, if thou be merciful unto them which have not the confidence of good works.
For indeed I will not think on the disposition of them which have sinned before death, before judgment, before destruction:
For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground, and planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root: even so is it of them that are sown in the world; they shall not all be saved.
Even so perisheth man also, which is formed with thy hands, and is called thine own image, because thou art like unto him, for whose sake thou hast made all things, and likened him unto the husbandman’s seed.
Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for the present, and things to cometh for such as be to come.
For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.
But understand thou for thyself, and seek out the glory for such as be like thee.
For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, and rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom.
But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them.
For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:
Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning.
For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;
And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.
And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so is also the seed; as the flowers be, such are the colours also; such as the workman is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman ls himself, so is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.
And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made, even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spake against me.
For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves.
Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it perfect.
For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.
But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not thy ordinances: and though the fruit of thy law did not perish, neither could it, for it was thine;
For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it
Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.
For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come, and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;
But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:
Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.
For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended among women.
Do not so, but be counselled. by me: for how many are the adversities of Sion? be comforted in regard of the sorrow of Jerusalem.
For thou seest that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;
Where is Uriel the angel, who came unto me at the first? for he hath caused me to fall into many trances, and mine end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.
And I said, Because thou hast forsaken me, and yet I did according to thy words, and I went into the field, and, lo, I have seen, and yet see, that I am not able to express.
For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.
He answered me then, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform thee, and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid: for the Highest will reveal many secret things unto thee.
He hath seen that thy way is right: for that thou sorrowest continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.
And, behold, thou sawest her likeness, and because she mourned for her son, thou begannest to comfort her: and of these things which have chanced, these are to be opened unto thee.
For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, so hath he shewed thee the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty:
For I knew that the Highest would shew this unto thee.
For in the place wherein the Highest beginneth to shew his city, there can no man’s building be able to stand.
For thou art blessed above many other, and art called with the Highest; and so are but few.
But let the heads be preserved for the last.
For some of them were set up, but ruled not.
Then saw I also that two little feathers divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: for the four continued in their place.
And when they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, namely, it that was in the midst; for that was greater than the two other heads.
For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.
That all the earth may be refreshed, and may return, being delivered from thy violence, and that she may hope for the judgment and mercy of him that made her.
For thou hast judged me worthy to shew me the last times.
As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
For these are they that shall accomplish his wickedness, and that shall finish his last end.
For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword.
For the sword of the one shall devour the other: but at the last shall he fall through the sword himself.
For he shall set them before him alive in judgment, and shall rebuke them, and correct them.
For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been pressed upon my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken unto thee from the beginning.
What have we offended thee? and what evil have we done against thee, that thou forsakest us, and sittest here in this place?
For we are not better than they that died there. And they wept with a loud voice. Then answered I them, and said,
For the Highest hath you in remembrance, and the Mighty hath not forgotten you in temptation.
As for me, I have not forsaken you, neither am I departed from you: but am come into this place, to pray for the desolation of Sion, and that I might seek mercy for the low estate of your sanctuary.
For they that were not left were in heaviness.
Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me, and said,
But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.
Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time;
For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended.
For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.
For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:
For yet greater evils than those which thou hast seen happen shall be done hereafter.
For look how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.
For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.
For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin.
And he answered me, saying, Go thy way, gather the people together, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days.
Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.
For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
Let no man therefore come unto me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.