They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
Genesis
LawFor the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James
General EpistlesSo they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
Judges
History / SamuelLet them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
Exodus
LawAnd ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers
LawAnd Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAs for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHe hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Psalms
PoetryOn the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawBe not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.