Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
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Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
Judges
HistoryAnd madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Nehemiah
HistoryBut God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
1 Kings
HistoryBut I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
Joshua
HistoryPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Job
Wisdom / JobAs for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psalms
PoetryGo up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsMoreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThe children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
Ezra
HistoryBut the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryMarriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews
General EpistlesNow in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis
Law / MosesEvery purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.