7,497 verses contain “not” (in the KJV: 6,841, in the BSB: 5,241) — showing 6,501–6,600
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As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,
Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.
Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
As for the servants whom I have given thee, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among thy number.
The heathen shall envy thee, but they shall be able to do nothing against thee, saith the Lord.
My hands shall cover thee, so that thy children shall not see hell.
Embrace thy children until I come and shew mercy unto them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
And yet tookest thou not away from them a wicked heart, that thy law might bring forth fruit in them.
I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of Babylon better than they of Sion?
And yet their reward appeareth not, and their labour hath no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.
Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments?
Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.
Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day wherethrough thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them.
He said moreover unto me, Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know;
Then said I unto him, It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.
Then answered he me, and said, Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judgest thou not thyself also?
For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwelleth above the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.
For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily, namely, wherefore Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations, and why the law of our forefathers is brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect,
And we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.
But as concerning the things whereof thou askest me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.
If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good.
Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long shall I hope on this fashion? when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?
And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.
Then said I, No, Lord, that can she not. And he said unto me, In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman:
What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.
And even he shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
And the Sodomitish sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
And shall be sought of many, and yet not be found: then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplied upon earth.
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labour, but their ways shall not prosper.
Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the land of their captivity?
Then said I unto him, Go thy ways from me, and come not nigh me. And he heard what I said, and went from me.
And I said, O Lord that bearest rule, who may know these things, but he that hath not his dwelling with men?
Then said he unto me, Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.
So I answered and said, Couldest thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou mightest shew thy judgment the sooner?
Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
For like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
And it shall be as it were a great motion; but the place where thou standest shall not be moved.
And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid: for the word is of the end, and the foundation of the earth is understood.
At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the fountains shall stand still, and in three hours they shall not run.
And the men that are received shall see it, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.
And therefore hath he sent me to shew thee all these things, and to say unto thee, Be of good comfort and fear not
And then was the spirit, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet formed.
And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
And now, O Lord, behold, these heathen, which have ever been reputed as nothing, have begun to be lords over us, and to devour us.
If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure?
Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
Why hast thou not considered in thy mind this thing that is to come, rather than that which is present?
Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
Nevertheless they were not obedient unto him; but spake against him, and imagined vain things;
And deceived themselves by their wicked deeds; and said of the most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:
But his law have they despised, and denied his covenants; in his statutes have they not been faithful, and have not performed his works.
And after seven days the world, that yet awaketh not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corrupt
Even so now, seeing corruption is grown up, and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also?
I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
O thou Adam, what hast thou done? for though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come of thee.
And that there should be shewed a paradise, whose fruit endureth for ever, wherein is security and medicine, since we shall not enter into it?
For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death.
Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no nor me which have spoken unto them,
That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
And he pardoneth; for if he did not so of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men should not remain living.
And being judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions,
O Lord, if thou suffer not thy servant, that we may pray before thee, and thou give us seed unto our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it; how shall each man live that is corrupt, who beareth the place of a man?
Whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling,
O look not upon the sins of thy people; but on them which serve thee in truth.
Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen, but the desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions.
Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before thee: but remember them, which according to thy will have known thy fear.
Let it not be thy will to destroy them which have lived like beasts; but to look upon them that have clearly taught thy law.
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.
Like as the husbandman’s seed perisheth, if it come not up, and receive not thy rain in due season; or if there come too much rain, and corrupt it:
These things have I not shewed unto all men, but unto thee, and a few like thee. Then answered I and said,
Behold, O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the wonders, which thou wilt begin to do in the last times: but at what time, thou hast not shewed me.
For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;
And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;
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.