God Himself

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

He shall not make Himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

• Holy
• Character
• Election

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

• Holy
• Character

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

• Walking

The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto Himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

That he may establish thee to day for a people unto Himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

• Armies
• Porches
• House

And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for Himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. read more When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. show less

And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a God, let him plead for Himself, because one hath cast down his altar.

And ye have this day rejected your God, who Himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged Himself in the LORD his God.

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to Himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

• Prostration
• King

And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed Himself upon the bed.

And he stretched Himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

Then went he down, and dipped Himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved Himself there, not once nor twice.

• Burial

And as Josiah turned Himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

• Priest

And, behold, God Himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he Himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

• Manasseh

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled Himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

• Josiah
• Self-will

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised Himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not Himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

• Prayer

Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting Himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present Himself before the LORD.

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth Himself against the Almighty.

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto Himself?

Will he delight Himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified Himself rather than God.

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight Himself with God.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge Himself. Selah.

• Happiness

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened Himself in his wickedness.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide Himself with us?} Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm Himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a God, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

• Clothing
• Salvation

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh Himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

• Truth

That he who blesseth Himself in the earth shall bless Himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning Himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

• Revenge

Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged Himself upon them;

And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt Himself, and magnify Himself above every God, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any God: for he shall magnify Himself above all.

The Lord God hath sworn by Himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

• Jonah
• Death
• Despondency

And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in Himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

So is he that layeth up treasure for Himself, and is not rich toward God.

And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within Himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

• Self-delusion

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with Himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

• Scoffing

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save Himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also Himself waited for the kingdom of God.

• Bigotry
• Slander

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making Himself equal with God.

If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in Himself, and shall straightway glorify him.

For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

• Jesus
• Blasphemy
• Indictments

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made Himself the Son of God.

• Forty

To whom also he shewed Himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of Himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

So then every one of us shall give account of Himself to God.

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not Himself in that thing which he alloweth.

• Church

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to Himself, and to God.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

• Gospel

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Who gave Himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

• Incense
• Offerings
• Walking

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Now God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

• Angel

For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

• Temple

Who opposeth and exalteth Himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing Himself that he is God.

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,

• Call

And no man taketh this honour unto Himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

• Covenant

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by Himself,

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep Himself unspotted from the world.

• Truth

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in Himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth Himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

• Abominable
• Character
• Fearful

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.