Bible Cross References
as it were
Exodus 39:28
[This translation omits this verse.]
2 Chronicles 26:14
And Uzziah prepared for them, [even] for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slings for stones.
Nehemiah 4:16
So it was, from that day on, [that] half of them that had been driven forth, did the work, and half of them kept guard; and [there were] spears, shields, bows, and breastplates, and rulers behind the whole house of Judah,
Job 41:26
[ 41:17] If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, [neither with] the spear or the breast plate.
that it be not rent
John 19:23
Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top in one piece.
John 19:24
Therefore they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it will be," so that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: "They divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
Ephesians 4:3-16
3
being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
5
one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6
one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
7
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the free gift of Christ.
8
Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."
9
But that "He ascended"--what it is but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10
He that descended, He is also the [One] who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.
11
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
12
for the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,
13
until we all arrive to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ;
14
that we may no longer be infants, being tossed as by waves, and being carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in regard to deceitful scheming,
15
but speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ;
16
from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the working of the measure of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the edification of itself in love.