Thomas Nelson - Find It Fast in the Bible

Find It Fast in the Bible

THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS
Nashville

Copyright 2000 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nelsons concordance of Bible phrases.

Find it fast in the Bible

p. cm.

Originally published: Nelsons concordance of Bible phrases. Nashville: T. Nelson

Publishers, 1992.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-7852-4521-9

1. Bible--Concordances, English. I. Thomas Nelson Publishers. II. Title

BS425.P47 2000 220.52033dc21 99089985

Contents

This book springs from the conviction that there is a new and different way to organize a concordance. For years, concordances have used the individual-word format to help Bible students find familiar passages of Scripture. But this book departs from that standard procedure by using important Bible phrases as the reference key. This system has several distinct advantages over the old approach.

First, this organization by phrases reduces the bulk of a concordance considerably, making it easier to handle and use. Suppose a Bible student is searching for a specific passage that mentions word of God. With a standard exhaustive word concordance, he would have to labor through more than 900 references to word or about 4,500 occurrences of the word God. But with Find It Fast in the Bible, he looks under word of God and its 48 occurrences to find exactly the passage he is searching for in a fraction of the time.

Another advantage of the phrase format is that it allows the user to trace an important theme or topic throughout the entire Bible. For example, the concept of the Day of the Lorda time of Gods approaching judgment on an evil worldwas a prominent theme of the prophet Joel. But a careful study of this phrase in Find It Fast in the Bible shows the idea was also mentioned by other Old Testament prophets as well as several New Testament writers. Other key biblical themes and phrases, such as Spirit of God, Kingdom of Heaven, and Lord of Lords, are easy to research by using the information in Find It Fast in the Bible.

Finally, a concordance arranged by familiar Bible phrases is an excellent sourcebook of Scriptural quotations. New Testament writers often quoted from the Old Testament to support an argument or drive home an important point. Turn to the phrase, Calls upon the name of the Lord, in this concordance for a good example of this quoting technique.

In this particular case, the apostle Peter quoted from the prophet Joel to impress his Jewish audience with the credentials of Christ. The careful Bible student will find many cases like this in Find It Fast in the Bible that show how often the New Testament draws upon the riches of the Old.

To use this handy concordance, try to recall a memorable phrase from the specific Bible passage you are searching for. Then look under that phrase in the book. The 5,200 phrases in Find It Fast in the Bible are arranged in alphabetical order according to the first words of the entries.

If you can recall only one important word of a Bible passage, look in the Key Word Index at the back of the concordance. This index will help you locate the exact phrase you have in mind.

Find It Fast in the Bible uses the New King James Version (NKJV) as the text on which the phrases are based. However, handy cross-references within the text make the book usable with four additional English translationsKing James Version ( kjv ), New Revised Standard Version ( nrsv ), New American Standard Bible ( nasb ), and New International Version ( niv ). For example, Verily, verily, I say unto youa kjv phraserefers the reader to its NKJV equivalent, Most assuredly, I say to you.

This book, an updating of the original The Phrase Concordance of the Bible to incorporate the NRSV, is the work of a team of editors, computer programmers, lay Bible students, and educators. Many people were consulted about which Bible phrases were familiar to them, and some were asked to submit their own lists. The publisher also sought the contributions of New Testament Professor William L. Lane and Old Testament Professor Ronald Youngblood. These two scholars insured that general users would be exposed to phrases of scholarly interest and that the overall list of phrases was comprehensive.

Our thanks to all these people for their contribution. We hope Find It Fast in the Bible will cultivate and promote a more discriminating study of Gods Word.

The Publisher

Mark 14:36 And He said, Abba, Father, all things are possible for You

Rom 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father

Gal 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father

1Jn 2:27 but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him

1Jn 2:28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming

1Jn 3:17 But whoever has this worlds goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him

1Jn 4:13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit

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John 15:4Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me

John 15:6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered

John 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you

John 15:9 As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love

John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Fathers commandments and abide in His love

John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed

1Jn 2:24 If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father

John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever

Ps 125:1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever

Eccl 1:4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes; but the earth abides forever

John 8:35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever

1Pet 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever

1Jn 2:17 but he who does the will of God abides forever

1Jn 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked

1Jn 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him

1Jn 3:24 Now he who keeps His commandments