And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSlay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Kings
HistoryWhen ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
Joshua
HistoryAnd this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSaying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHow much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Job
WisdomThou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGive not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Acts
HistoryFor I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobYe fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Matthew
GospelsSaying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
Judges
HistoryIf he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFlee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.