of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Heb. 10:36. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Rev. 2:10. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

See FAITHFULNESS; CONTINGENCIES. SPIRITUAL, FROM GOD: Gen. 49:24. His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob;

Ex. 15:2. The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation:

Ex. 33:16. Wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

Lev. 21:8. I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. Ex. 31:13.

Deut. 33:25. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

1 Sam. 2:4. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

Neh. 8:10. This day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Job. 23:6. Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Psa. 18:1. I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 28. Thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. 32. It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 35. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. 36. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. Psa. 144:1,2.

Psa. 23:2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Psa. 27:14. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Psa. 28:8. The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Psa. 29:11. The LORD will give strength unto his people;

Psa. 30:7. LORD, by thy favour thou hast

made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. Psa. 31:24. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Psa. 37:6. He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 17. The LORD upholdeth the righteous. 24. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 39. The salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Psa. 52:8. I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

Psa. 55:22. Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Psa. 61:5. Thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.

Psa. 63:8. My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. Psa. 66:9. Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Psa. 68:18. Thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. 28. Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. 35. The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people.

Psa. 71:16. I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

Psa. 72:6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. 17. Men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed,

Psa. 73:23. I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Psa. 81:10. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Psa. 84:5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 11. The LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Psa. 89:17. Thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

Psa. 92:12. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13. Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; Psa, 1:3.

Psa. 94:17. Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. 18. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

Psa. 138:3. In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. 8. The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Psa. 146:5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Prov. 10:29. The way of the LORD is strength to the upright:

Prov. 16:6. By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

İsa. 1:25. I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Isa. 4:3. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: 4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Isa. 6:6. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Isa. 26:12. LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works

in us.

Isa. 28:6. For a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

Isa. 33:5. The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. 6. Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

Isa. 40:11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. 29. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 31. They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of

water.

Isa. 44:3. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

Isa. 45:8. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. 24. Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come;

Isa. 54:17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

Isa. 57:19. I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

Isa. 58:8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. 10. Then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: 11. And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Jer. 31:12. They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 14. I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. 33. I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ezek. 16:14. Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

ared as the morning; and he shall come into us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Hos. 14:5. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his nots as Lebanon. 8. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I ave heard him, and observed him: . . From me is thy fruit found. vs. 6,7. Hab. 3:19. The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.

Zech, 10:12. I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

Zech. 12:8. In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall teas David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. Mal. 3:2. He is like a refiner's fire, and like failers' sope: 3. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the Sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and siver, that they may offer unto the LORD an ffering in righteousness.

Mal. 4:2. Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;

John 1:16. Of his fulness have all we re(ived, and grace for grace.

John 17:11. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Acts 20:32. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to ve you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

Rom. 9:23. That he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

Rom. 14:4. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

2 Cor. 5:5. He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2 Cor. 9:8. God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

2 Cor. 10:4. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;

Eph. 3:20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Phil. 1:6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Phil. 2:13. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleas ure.

Phil. 4:7. The peace of God, which passeth: all understanding, shall keep your hearts; and minds through Christ Jesus. 19. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Col. 1:11. Strengthened with all might,. according to his glorious power, unto all pa tience and longsuffering with joyfulness;: 12. Giving thanks unto the Father, which. hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in sight:

1 Thess. 5:24. Faithful is he that callethi you, who also will do it.

Heb. 12:10. For they verily for a few days: chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Jas. 1:17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. v..

me.

2 Cor. 1:21. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22. Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2 Cor. 3:5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

1 Pet. 1:5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

2 Pet. 1:2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God. and of Jesus our Lord, 3. . . . His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

1 John 1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 4:4. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

See REGENERATION; SANCTIFICATION. TEMPORAL, FROM GOD: Gen. 1:30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Gen. 8:22. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Gen. 9:1. God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 3. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. v. 2.

Gen. 22:17. In blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; Gen. 26:4,5.

Gen. 28:20. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21. So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

Gen. 49:24. His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; 25. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: vs. 11,12,20.

Ex. 23:22. If thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

Ex. 34:24. Neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. Lev. 25:20. And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21. Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22. And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

Lev. 26:4. I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5. And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your

through your land. 7. And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8. And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9. For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10. And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

Deut. 1:10. The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deut. 2:7. The LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

Deut. 4:4. Ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. v. 40; Num. 10:29; Deut. 5:33; 6:2-25; 12:28.

Deut. 7:13. He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14. Thou shalt be blessed auove all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15. And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; vs. 16-24; Ex. 15: 26; 23:25,26.

Deut. 8:3. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8. A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 9. A land wherein thou shait eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 10. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 15. Who led thee

through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint 16. Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; 17. And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. vs. 1,2.

Deut. 10:18. He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Deut. 11:12. A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. ts. 13-15.

Deut. 12:7. Ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. Deut. 15:4. For the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 6. For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. Deut. 26:18,19. Deut. 28:7. The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8. The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deut. 29:5. I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. Deut. 8:4.

Deut. 32:13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14. Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

Josh. 1:8. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Ruth 1:6. She had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

1 Sam. 2:7. The LORD maketh poor, and

maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 8. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory:

2 Sam. 7:8. Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: 9. And I was with thee withersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. 1 Chr. 17:7,8.

1 Chr. 29:12. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 14. All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 16. O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.

2 Chr. 1:12. Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

2 Chr. 31:10. Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

Ezra 8:22. The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

Neh. 8:10. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Job 5:10. Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

Job 12:23. He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

Job 22:18. He filled their houses with good things:

Job 37:6. He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. 10. By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 13. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. 16. Dost thou know.. 17. How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Job 38:25. Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26. To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring