SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS. SANCTIFICATION, PRAYER FOR. 1 Kin. 8.57. The Lord our God be with us. 58. That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments.

Neh. 1.11. Let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name.

Psa. 17.5. Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

Psa. 19.12. Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

Psa. 27.9. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Psa. 51.2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 12. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Psa. 56.13. Thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Psa. 61.7. O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

Psa. 68.28. Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

Psa. 71.18. Forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Psa. 80.17. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18. So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 19. Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Psa. 85.6. Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

Psa. 86.11. Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. 16. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

Psa. 90.12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us : yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psa. 118.25. Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

Psa. 119.5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 10. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander

from thy commandments. 17. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. 25. My soul cleaveth unto the dust quicken thou me according to thy word. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and 1 shall keep it unto the end. 34. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. 35. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. 36. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. 37. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Psa. 119.40. Quicken me in thy righteousness. 77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 88. Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. 116. Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. 117. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. 122. Be surety for thy servant for good. 133. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 149. Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgment. 156. Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy judgments. v. 107,154,159.

Psa. 125.4. Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

Psa. 139.23. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psa. 143.10. Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 11. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake.

Song 1.4. Draw me, we will run after thee. Jer. 31.18. Turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

Lam. 5.21. Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Hab. 3.2. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. Mar. 9.24. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

Luk. 11.1. Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

Luk. 17.5. The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

Jno. 17.11. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Eph. 3.16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love.

Phil. 1.9. I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. 10. That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and

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without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Col. 2.2. That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. Col. 4.12. That ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 The. 3.10. Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith. 12. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: 13. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

1 The. 5.23. The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 The. 1.11. We pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power.

2 The. 2.16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace, 17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

2 The. 3.5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 16. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

Heb. 13.20. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21. Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ.

1 Pet. 5.10. The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

See TEMPTATION, PRAYER IN-PRAYER, INTERCESSORY-SANCTIFICATION.

SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS, IGNORANCE. Ex. 5.2. Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

Deu. 29.2. Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt. 4. Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Deu. 32.28. They are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider

their latter end!

Jud. 2.10. There arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. Jud. 16.20. He wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

Job 21.14. They say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 22.13. How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? 14. Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. Psa. 5.5. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight.

Psa. 10.5. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight.

Psa. 14.1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. 4. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?

Psa. 50.21. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.

Psa. 73.22. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Psa. 79.6. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee. Psa. 82.5. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness.

Psa. 92.5. O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. 6. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Psa. 94.7. They say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. 8. Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Psa. 95.10. It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

Pro. 1.7. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. 22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 29. They hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: 30. They would none of iny counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Pro. 4.19. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Pro. 10.21. Fools die for want of wisdom. Pro. 13.18. Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction.

Pro. 17.16. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

Pro. 19.2. That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good. 3. The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

Pro. 28.5. Evil men understand not judg ment.

Ecc. 7.25. To know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecc. 9.12. Man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Isa. 1.3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Isa. 5.13. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge. 20. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isa. 6.9. Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10. Make the heart of this people fat, and make

their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest! they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Isa. 9.2. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Isa. 26.10. Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. 11. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see.

Isa. 27.11. It is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Isa. 29.10. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12. And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he sayeth, I am not learned.

Isa. 40.21. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isa. 42.7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. 18. Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant? 20. Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

Isa. 44.18. They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19. And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding. 20. He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Isa. 56.10. His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs.

Isa. 60.2. Darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people.

Jer. 2.8. The priest said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not. Jer. 4.22. My people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jer. 5.4. I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God. 5. I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 21. Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.

Jer. 8.7. The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. 9. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

Jer. 9.3. They proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord. 6. Through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 16.10. They shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

Jer. 17.9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Dan. 12.10. None of the wicked shall understand.

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Hos. 4.1. There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me. The people that doth not understand shall fall. Hos. 5.4. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: and they have not known the Lord.

Hos. 7.11. Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart.

Mic. 4.12. They know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel.

Mat. 6.23. If thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness !

Mat. 13.19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. Mar. 4.15. Luk. 8.12.

Mat. 15.14. They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Mat. 16.3. Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Mat. 22.29. Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Mar. 12 24. Mat. 23.24. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Mar. 6.52. They considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. Luk. 11.52. Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye enter not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Luk. 12.48. He that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. 57. Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

Luk. 19.42. If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Luk. 23.34. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

Jno. 1.5. The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 10.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Jno. 3.4. How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 19. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20. Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 31. He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth.

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Jno. 4.10. If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 22. Ye worship ye know not what. v. 11,15.

Jno. 6.52. How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 60. Many of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

Jno. 7.28. He that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

Jno. 8.15. Ye judge after the flesh. 19. Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. 27. They understood not that he spake to them of the Father. 33. We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 43. Why do ye not understand my speech: even because ye cannot hear my word. 52. Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 55. Yet ye have not known him; but I know him and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you. 57. Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

Jno. 9.29. We know that God spake unto Moses; as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. 30. Why, herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. 39. Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind. v. 30-38.

Jno. 12.38. Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Jno. 14.17. The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him.

Jno. 15.21. They know not him that sent me. Jno. 16.3. These things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father,

nor me.

Jno. 17.25. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee.

Act. 3.17. Now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

Act. 13.27. They that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath-day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Act. 17.23. I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

Act. 19.2. We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

Act. 26.18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.

Rom. 1.19. That which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of th world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21. When they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. 28. They did not like to retain God in their knowledge.

Rom. 2.4. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Rom. 8.26. We know not what we should pray for as we ought.

Rom. 11.25. Blindness in part is happencil to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

1 Cor. 1.18. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 20. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21. The world by wisdom knew not God.

1 Cor. 2.8. Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15. He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

1 Cor. 13.9. We know in part, and we prophesy in part. 1 Cor. 15.34.

Some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

2 Cor. 3.14. Their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament. 15. Even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

2 Cor. 4.3. If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Eph. 4.18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

Eph. 5.8. Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord.

1 The. 4.5. The Gentiles which know not God. 2 The. 1.8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Tim. 3.7. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Tim. 3.13. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. Tit. 1.16. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him.

Heb. 5.11. Ye are dull of hearing. 12. For

when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

1 Pet. 1.14. Not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignor

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2 Pet. 1.9. He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2 Pet. 3.16. In which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

1 Jno. 2.4. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 9. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 11. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. 1 Jno. 1.6.

1 Jno. 3.1. The world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 6. Whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

1 Jno. 4.8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

3 Jno. 11. He that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Jude 10. These speak evil of those things which they know not.

Rev. 3.17. Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

SPIRITUAL DESERTION. See SIN SEPARATES FROM GOD-DOUBT.

SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION. RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES WITHDRAWN. 2 Chr. 15.3. For a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Psa. 74.8. They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. 9. We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth bow long.

Pro. 29.18. Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Lam. 2.6. He hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 7. The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast. 9. The law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord. Jer. 7.12.

Eze. 3.26. I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

Eze. 7.26. Then shall they seek a vision of

the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Hos. 2.11. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast-days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

Joel 1.9. The meat-offering and the drinkoffering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn. v. 13.

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Amos 8.11. I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea, an? from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

Mic. 2.5. Thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord. 6. Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

Mat. 9.36. When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few: 38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

SPIRITUAL DILIGENCE, SEEKING GOD, SPIRITUALITY, HEAVENLY MINDEDNESS, SINCERITY. Deu. 6.5. Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deu. 18.13. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

Jos. 22.5. Take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deu. 10.12.

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Jos. 24.14. Serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. v. 23. 1 Sam. 7.3.

1 Sam. 12.24. Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart. v. 20.

1 Kin. 8.23. Who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart. 61. Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments.

1 Chr. 22.19. Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God.

1 Chr. 28.9. Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searchethi all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee. while ye

2 Chr. 15.2. The Lord is with you, be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you.

Ezr. 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.