664 verses contain “though” (in the KJV: 451, in the BSB: 351) — showing 601–664
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But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain: for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means.
Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.
If adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first; and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee.
Though they multiply, rejoice not in them, except the fear of the Lord be with them.
If a servant say to his master, I will not do as it pleaseth thee; though afterward he do it, he angereth him that nourisheth him.
A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair plaistering on the wall of a gallery.
Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not: for there may be a returning to favour.
Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:
For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.
Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.
Yet have I more to say, which I have thought upon; for I am filled as the moon at the full.
Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon these things, and have left them in writing.
Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;
No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.
And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Then thought I upon thy mercy, O Lord, and upon thy acts of old, how thou deliverest such as wait for thee, and savest them out of the hands of the enemies.
And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.
In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.
Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?
Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?
Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.
Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:
To day he shall be lifted up and to morrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to nothing.
They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
And I thought with myself, Into what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was bountiful and beloved in my power.
And that by their policy and patience they had conquered all the place, though it were very far from them; and the kings also that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, till they had discomfited them, and given them a great overthrow, so that the rest did give them tribute every year:
And though certain ungodly men of the people had made complaints against him,
We thought it good therefore to write unto the kings and countries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against them, their cities, or countries, nor yet aid their enemies against them.
Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.
Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the altar.
This ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachms of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought fit not to bestow upon the sacrifice, because it was not convenient, but to be reserved for other charges.
Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed, him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary: whom forthwith he shut up without regard of justice.
For though for the present time I should be delivered from the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.
Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,
And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while for our chastening and correction, yet shall he be at one again with his servants.
Then swelling with anger. he thought to avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him flee. Therefore commanded he his chariotman to drive without ceasing, and to dispatch the journey, the judgment of God now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a common burying place of the Jews.
And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.
And the man, that thought a little afore he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stink.
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
And also in that he perceived that there was great favour laid up for those that died godly, it was an holy and good thought. Whereupon he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.
Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safeguard of the country, but because he thought to have been made governor.
For he thought by taking him to do the Jews much hurt.