4,714 verses contain “god” (in the KJV: 4,573, in the BSB: 4,131) — showing 4,401–4,500
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And now thou art both beautiful in thy countenance, and
witty in thy words: surely if thou do as thou hast spoken thy
God shall be my
God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of king Nabuchodonosor, and shalt be
renowned through the whole earth.
And when she came out, she
besought the Lord
God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of her people.
So all went forth and none was left in the
bedchamber, neither little nor great. Then
Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord
God of all power, look at this present upon the works of mine hands for the
exaltation of Jerusalem.
And approached to his bed, and took hold of the hair of his head, and said,
Strengthen me, O Lord
God of Israel, this day.
Then said
Judith afar off, to the
watchmen at the gate, Open, open now the gate:
God, even our
God, is with us, to
shew his power yet in Jerusalem, and his forces against the enemy, as he hath even done this day.
Then she said to them with a loud voice, Praise, praise God, praise God, I say, for he hath not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night.
Then all the people were wonderfully
astonished, and bowed themselves and worshipped
God, and said with one
accord, Blessed be thou, O our
God, which hast this day brought to
nought the enemies of thy people.
Then said Ozias unto her, O daughter, blessed art thou of the most high God above all the women upon the earth; and blessed be the Lord God, which hath created the heavens and the earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chief of our enemies.
For this thy confidence shall not depart from the heart of men, which remember the power of God for ever.
And
God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things because thou hast not
spared thy life for the
affliction of our nation, but hast
revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our
God. And all the people said; So be it, so be it.
And when Achior had seen all that the
God of Israel had done, he believed in
God greatly, and
circumcised the flesh of his
foreskin, and was joined unto the house of Israel unto this day.
Then Joacim the high priest, and the ancients of the children of Israel that dwelt in Jerusalem, came to behold the good things that
God had shewed to Israel, and to see
Judith, and to
salute her.
Thou hast done all these things by thine hand: thou hast done much good to Israel, and
God is pleased
therewith: blessed be thou of the
Almighty Lord for
evermore. And all the people said, So be it.
And
Judith said, Begin unto my
God with
timbrels, sing unto my Lord with cymbals:
tune unto him a new
psalm:
exalt him, and call upon his name.
For
God breaketh the battles: for among the camps in the midst of the people he hath delivered me out of the hands of them that
persecuted me.
Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.
And my nation is this Israel, which
cried to
God, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all those evils, and
God hath wrought signs and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.
Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.
And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.
So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.
Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month
Adar, the
fourteenth and
fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly, and joy, and with
gladness before
God, according to the generations for ever among his people.
Then they
cried unto
God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.
Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what
God had determined to do, was
awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until night by all means was
desirous to know it.
But I did this, that I might not
prefer the glory of man above the glory of
God: neither will I worship any but thee, O
God, neither will I do it in pride.
And now, O Lord
God and King,
spare thy people: for their eyes are upon us to bring us to
nought;
yea, they desire to destroy the inheritance, that hath been thine from the beginning.
And she prayed unto the Lord
God of Israel, saying, O my Lord, thou only art our King: help me,
desolate woman, which have no helper but thee:
Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.
Neither had thine
handmaid any joy since the day that I was brought
hither to this present, but in thee, O Lord
God of Abraham.
O thou mighty
God above all, hear the voice of the
forlorn and deliver us out of the hands of the
mischievous, and deliver me out of my fear.
And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God, who is the beholder and saviour of all things, she took two maids with her:
Then
God changed the spirit of the king into mildness, who in a fear
leaped from his throne, and took her in his arms, till she came to herself again, and comforted her with loving words and said unto her,
Then said she unto him, I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.
And take not only
thankfulness away from among men, but also lifted up with the glorious words of
lewd persons, that were never good, they think to escape the justice of
God, that
seeth all things and hateth evil.
And that they be children of the most high and most mighty, living God, who hath ordered the kingdom both unto us and to our progenitors in the most excellent manner.
For he that was the worker of these things, is
hanged at the gates of
Susa with all his family:
God, who ruleth all things, speedily rendering
vengeance to him according to his deserts.
For
Almighty God hath turned to joy unto them the day, wherein the chosen people should have perished.
For
froward thoughts separate from
God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise.
For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not
acquit a
blasphemer of his words: for
God is witness of his
reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.
He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from
filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his
boast that
God is his father.
For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
As for the mysteries of
God, they kn
ew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor
discerned a reward for
blameless souls.
For
God created man to be
immortal, and made him to be an image of his own
eternity.
But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of
God, and there shall no
torment touch them.
And having been a little
chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for
God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
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.
Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the
memorial thereof is
immortal: because it is known with
God, and with men.
He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners he was translated.
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.
How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
Because, being ministers of his kingdom, ye have not judged
aright, nor kept the law, nor walked after the counsel of
God;
And incorruption maketh us near unto God:
Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
For she is a
treasure unto men that never faileth: which they that use become the friends of
God, being
commended for the gifts that come from learning.
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 she is the breath of the power of
God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the
Almighty: therefore can no
defiled thing fall into her.
For she is the brightness of the
everlasting light, the
unspotted mirror of the power of
God, and the image of his goodness.
And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets.
For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
In that she is
conversant with
God, she magnifieth her nobility:
yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.
For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works.
Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her, except
God gave her me; and that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and
besought him, and with my whole heart I said,
O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word,
For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is?
Moreover, the nations in their wicked
conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him
blameless unto
God, and kept him strong against his tender
compassion toward his son.
When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours.
That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.
For neither is there any
God but thou that careth for all, to whom thou mightest
shew that thy judgment is not unright.
For they went
astray very far in the ways of error, and held them for
gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were
despised, being
deceived, as children of no understanding.
But they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he
dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of
God.
For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be
gods; now being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true
God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme
damnation upon them.
Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of
God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the
workmaster;
But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the
gods which
govern the world.
With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.
But
miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who call them
gods, which are the works of men’s hands, gold and silver, to
shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand.
But that which is made with hands is
cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he, because he made it; and it, because, being corruptible, it was called
god.
Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a
visitation: because in the creature of
God they are become an
abomination, and stumblingblocks to the souls of men, and a
snare to the feet of the unwise.
For a father
afflicted with untimely
mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a
god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.
And so the multitude,
allured by the grace of the work, took him now for a
god, which a little before was but honoured.
Moreover this was not enough for them, that they
erred in the knowledge of
God; but whereas they lived in the great war of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.
And employing his labours
lewdly, he maketh a vain
god of the same clay, even he which a little before was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out when his life which was lent him shall be demanded.
For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle; and as for their feet, they are slow to go.
For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.
Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in respect of beasts: but they went without the praise of God and his blessing.
For
sometime the flame was
mitigated, that it might not burn up the beasts that were sent against the ungodly; but themselves might see and perceive that they were
persecuted with the judgment of
God.
For whereas they would not believe any thing by reason of the enchantments; upon the destruction of the
firstborn, they acknowledged this people to be the sons of
God.
The word of
God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are
everlasting commandments.
The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, making peace and perfect health to
flourish; both which are the gifts of
God: and it enlargeth their
rejoicing that love him.
Exalt not
thyself, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, and so
God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation, because thou camest not in truth to the fear of the Lord, but thy heart is full of
deceit.
He that forsaketh his father is as a
blasphemer; and he that angereth his mother is
cursed: of
God.
Be willing to hear every godly discourse; and let not the parables of understanding escape thee.
Say not, God will look upon the multitude of my oblations, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept it.
In the hand of
God is the prosperity of man: and upon the person of the
scribe shall he lay his honour.