For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonElkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMy soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
LawAnd speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBehold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
Genesis
LawAnd the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Genesis
LawTrain up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.