7,165 verses contain “will” (in the KJV: 3,373, in the BSB: 6,210) — showing 6,801–6,900
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I have given my daughter in marriage to seven men, who died that night they came in unto her: nevertheless for the present be
merry. But Tobias said, I
will eat nothing here, till we agree and
swear one to another.
But my father counteth the days; and if I
tarry long, he
will be very
sorry.
But his father in law said unto him,
Tarry with me, and I
will send to thy father, and they shall declare unto him how things go with thee.
Then said Raphael, I know, Tobias, that thy father will open his eyes.
Surely I
will keep close nothing from you. For I said, It was good to keep close the secret of a king, but that it was honourable to
reveal the works of God.
For not of any favour of mine, but by the will of our God I came; wherefore praise him for ever.
And he
will scourge us for our
iniquities, and
will have mercy again, and
will gather us out of all nations, among whom he hath scattered us.
If ye turn to him with your whole heart, and with your whole mind, and deal uprightly before him, then
will he turn unto you, and
will not hide his face from you. Therefore see what he
will do with you, and
confess him with your whole mouth, and praise the Lord of might, and
extol the
everlasting King. In the land of my captivity do I praise him, and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation. O ye sinners, turn and do justice before him: who can tell if he
will accept you, and have mercy on you?
I
will extol my God, and my soul shall praise the King of heaven, and shall
rejoice in his greatness.
O Jerusalem, the holy city, he
will scourge thee for thy children’s works, and
will have mercy again on the sons of the righteous.
And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof.
And thou shalt declare unto that they prepare for me earth and water: for I
will go forth in my wrath against them and
will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of mine army, and I
will give them for a
spoil unto them:
And I
will lead them
captives to the utmost parts of all the earth.
Thou therefore shalt go forth. and take
beforehand for me all their coasts: and if they
will yield themselves unto thee, thou shalt reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.
For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom,
whatsoever I have spoken, that
will I do by mine hand.
Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of
Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I
will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.
For, say they, we will not be afraid of the face of the children of Israel: for, lo, it is a people that have no strength nor power for a strong battle
Now therefore, lord Holofernes, we
will go up, and they shall be a prey to be
devoured of all thine army.
And who art thou, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast
prophesied against us as to day, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God
will defend them? and who is God but Nabuchodonosor?
He
will send his power, and
will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliver them: but we his servants
will destroy them as one man; for they are not able to
sustain the power of our horses.
For with them we
will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be
drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith king Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.
Now the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were greatly troubled, and said every one to his neighbour, Now
will these men
lick up the face of the earth; for neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their weight.
For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence; so shall
thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city, and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and
will camp upon them, to watch that none go out of the city.
For it is better for us to be made a
spoil unto them, than to die for
thirst: for we
will be his servants, that our souls may live, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wives nor our children to die.
Then said Ozias to them, Brethren, be of good courage, let us yet
endure five days, in the which space the Lord our God may turn his mercy toward us; for he
will not
forsake us utterly.
And if these days pass, and there come no help unto us, I will do according to your word.
For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies.
Therefore let us wait for salvation of him, and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him.
But we know none other god, therefore we trust that he
will not
despise us, nor any of our nation.
For if we be taken so, all
Judea shall lie waste, and our sanctuary shall be
spoiled; and he
will require the
profanation thereof at our mouth.
And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the country, and the
desolation of our inheritance,
will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles,
wheresoever we shall be in
bondage; and we shall be an offence and a reproach to all them that possess us.
But the people were very
thirsty, and compelled us to do unto them as we have spoken, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we
will not break.
Therefore now pray thou for us, because thou art a godly woman, and the Lord
will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we shall
faint no more.
Then said
Judith unto them, Hear me, and I
will do a thing, which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation.
Ye shall stand this night in the gate, and I will go forth with my waitingwoman: and within the days that ye have promised to deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by mine hand.
But
enquire not ye of mine act: for I
will not declare it unto you, till the things be finished that I do.
And I am coming before Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth; and I
will shew him a way, whereby he shall go, and
win all the hill country, without losing the body or life of any one of his men.
And when thou standest before him, be not afraid in thine heart, but
shew unto him according to thy word; and he
will entreat thee well.
Then said Holofernes unto her, Woman, be of good comfort, fear not in thine heart: for I never
hurt any that was
willing to serve Nabuchodonosor, the king of all the earth.
Then
Judith said unto him, Receive the words of thy servant, and suffer thine
handmaid to speak in thy presence, and I
will declare no lie to my lord this night.
And if thou
wilt follow the words of thine
handmaid, God
will bring the thing perfectly to pass by thee; and my lord shall not fail of his purposes.
And now, that my lord be not defeated and
frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath overtaken them,
wherewith they
will provoke their God to anger
whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done:
Now when they shall bring them word, they
will forthwith do it, and they shall be given to thee to be destroyed the same day.
For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:
And I
will come and
shew it unto thee: then thou shalt go forth with all thine army, and there shall be none of them that shall resist thee.
And I
will lead thee through the midst of
Judea, until thou come before Jerusalem; and I
will set thy throne in the midst thereof; and thou shalt drive them as sheep that have no
shepherd, and a dog shall not so much as open his mouth at thee: for these things were told me according to my
foreknowledge, and they were declared unto me, and I am sent to tell thee.
And
Judith said, I
will not eat thereof, lest there be an offence: but provision shall be made for me of the things that I have brought.
For, lo, it
will be a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we draw her not unto us, she
will laugh us to
scorn.
Then said
Judith unto him, Who am I now, that I should
gainsay my lord? surely
whatsoever pleaseth him I
will do speedily, and it shall be my joy unto the day of my death.
So
Judith said, I
will drink now, my lord, because my life is
magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.
I
will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great and glorious, wonderful in strength, and
invincible.
Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! the Lord
Almighty will take
vengeance of them in the day of judgment, in putting fire and worms in their flesh; and they shall feel them, and
weep for ever.
Now when I asked my counsellors how this might be brought to pass, Aman, that
excelled in wisdom among us, and was approved for his constant good
will and
steadfast fidelity, and had the honour of the second place in the kingdom,
For I could have been content with good
will for the salvation of Israel to
kiss the soles of his feet.
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.
That they
will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and
quench the glory of thy house, and of thine altar,
For he
will be found of them that
tempt him not; and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him.
For the holy spirit of discipline
will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and
will not
abide when unrighteousness cometh in.
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 if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
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.
After I am come into mine house, I
will repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness; and to live with her hath no sorrow, but
mirth and joy.
For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is?
And how could any thing have
endured, if it had not been thy
will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?
For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,
For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou makest their boldness manifest.
For he,
peradventure willing to please one in authority, forced all his skill to make the resemblance of the best fashion.
For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.
A patient man
will tear for a time, and afterward joy shall spring up unto him.
He will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom.
Believe in him, and he
will help thee; order thy way
aright, and trust in him.
Woe unto you that have lost
patience! and what
will ye do when the Lord shall visit you?
They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they that love him will keep his ways.
They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well, pleasing unto him; and they that love him shall be filled with the law.
They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and humble their souls in his sight,
Saying, We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.
He that feareth the Lord will honour his father, and will do service unto his parents, as to his masters.
The heart of the
prudent will understand a parable; and an
attentive ear is the desire of a wise man.
For at the first she
will walk with him by
crooked ways, and bring fear and
dread upon him, and
torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws.
Then
will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort him, and
shew him her secrets.
But if he go wrong, she
will forsake him, and give him over to his own ruin.
And say not, Who shall controul me for my works? for the Lord
will surely
revenge thy pride.
Say not, I have
sinned, and what
harm hath happened unto me? for the Lord is
longsuffering, he
will in no wise let thee go.
And say not His mercy is great; he
will be
pacified for the multitude of my sins: for mercy and wrath come from him, and his
indignation resteth upon sinners.
Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.
For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and
will not
abide in the day of thy trouble.
And there is a friend, who being turned to
enmity, and
strife will discover thy reproach.
Again, some friend is a companion at the table, and
will not continue in the day of thy
affliction.
But in thy prosperity he
will be as
thyself, and
will be bold over thy servants.
If thou be brought low, he will be against thee, and will hide himself from thy face.
She is very unpleasant to the unlearned: he that is without understanding will not remain with her.
She
will lie upon him as a mighty stone of trial; and he
will cast her from him
ere it be long.
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.
Number not
thyself among the multitude of sinners, but remember that wrath
will not
tarry long.
Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him according to his honour.