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Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.

“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

“Speak to the Levites and tell them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the LORD—a tithe of the tithe.

So you are to present an offering to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites, and from these you are to give the LORD’s offering to Aaron the priest.

Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.

Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.

May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “No matter what, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.

Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”

So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the LORD. Only the priests, the descendants of Aaron, are consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully; you will not receive honor from the LORD God.”

For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.

In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from the God of his salvation.

Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.

You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.

Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.

Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.

But if you tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and its interpretation.”

But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever—yes, forever and ever.’

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.

Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop—thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”

Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

…will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

In His teaching Jesus also said, “Watch out for the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, to receive greetings in the marketplaces,

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.

Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

…will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

“Receive your sight!” Jesus replied. “Your faith has healed you.”

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.

I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

…the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

On their arrival, they prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit.

“Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

…and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

…came and stood beside me. ‘Brother Saul,’ he said, ‘receive your sight.’ And at that moment I could see him.

…to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with consideration, allowing him to visit his friends and receive their care.

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

…so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.

If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”