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;
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Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNeither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
Judges
History / SamuelHow long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms
PoetryThen the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Exodus
Law / Moses(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesThe sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy
LawThen said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Acts
History / LukeFor what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
Judges
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
Judges
HistoryLikewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
James
General Epistles / JamesThe wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Numbers
LawAnd see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.