Saints, Compared To

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Judges 5:31 OT

  “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

• Matthew 13:43 NT

  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

• Daniel 12:3 OT

  Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

• Matthew 5:14 NT

  You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

• Philippians 2:15 NT

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• Psalms 125:1 OT

  Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

• Psalms 125:2 OT

  As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

• Hosea 14:5-7 OT

  I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon. His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon. Men will dwell in his shade. They…

• Exodus 19:5 OT

  Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

• Psalms 135:4 OT

  For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.

• Malachi 3:17 OT

  They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

• Job 23:10 OT

  But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

• Lamentations 4:2 OT

  The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

• 2 Timothy 2:20 NT

  Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

• Zechariah 9:16 OT

  Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

• 1 Peter 2:5 NT

  You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

• Matthew 11:25 NT

  At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

• 1 Peter 2:2 NT

  as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

• Matthew 18:3 NT

  and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

• 1 Corinthians 14:20 NT

  Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

• 1 Peter 1:14 NT

  as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

• 1 Corinthians 12:20 NT

  But now they are many members, but one body.

• 1 Corinthians 12:27 NT

  Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

• 2 Timothy 2:3 NT

  You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.