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Pearl
A pearl is a round gem formed inside a mollusk. In the Bible it denotes something of great value, and it is best known from the New Testament parable of the pearl of great price and from the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem.
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- Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the PearlBible
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl are two brief parables of Jesus recorded in Matthew 13:44-46. They convey the worth of the kingdom of God by depicting a person who discovers it and joyfully sells everything he owns to obtain it.
- Parable of the NetBible
The Parable of the Net is a parable in Matthew 13:47-50 in which Jesus likens the kingdom of heaven to a net that gathers fish of every kind. It teaches about judgment, declaring that at the end of the world the angels will separate the wicked from among the just.
- Great WhoreBible
The great whore is a symbolic figure in Revelation 17–19. She is depicted riding a scarlet beast, drunk with the blood of the saints, and committing fornication with the kings of the earth, and she is called "Babylon the Great."
- Matthew 7:1Bible Verses
"Judge not, that ye be not judged" is a saying of Jesus that warns against the hypocrisy of condemning others. It is frequently noted, however, that the verse is often used to rule out all judgments of right and wrong.
- Ewha HaktangHistory
Ewha Haktang was the first modern educational institution for women in Korea. Mary F. Scranton, a missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, founded it in 1886 in Jeongdong, Seoul. It is the predecessor of present-day Ewha Womans University and Ewha Girls' High School.
Verses in the King James Version 9, showing 6
- Job 28:18
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
- Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- Matthew 13:45
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
- Matthew 13:46
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
- 1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
- Revelation 17:4
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
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