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Job 17:9
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Job 17:9
9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands †shalbe stronger, and stronger.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 17:9
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
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Pure or free from defilement; also wholly or entirely.
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The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
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Comparative of strong; having more strength.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
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Open the full verse study15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
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Open the full verse study30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
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Open the full verse study9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
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Open the full verse study16A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
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Open the full verse study7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
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Open the full verse study5Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
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Open the full verse study29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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Open the full verse study6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
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Open the full verse study13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
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Open the full verse study8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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Open the full verse study5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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Open the full verse study2And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
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Open the full verse study4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
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Open the full verse study11For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
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Open the full verse study19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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