When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Judges
HistoryAnd when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Genesis
Law / MosesBath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
1 Chronicles
HistoryOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther
HistoryYour iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
Luke
GospelsIn the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings
HistoryThen shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahFor the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
Genesis
LawBut into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Hebrews
General EpistlesThine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.