And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter
General EpistlesFor enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Judges
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel
HistoryWe have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Acts
History / LukeBut and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
Luke
GospelsAnd they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
Exodus
LawNevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterWhen Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,
Judges
History / SamuelThen hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTo whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Job
WisdomWherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
1 Kings
HistoryFor the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,