Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
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But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
Genesis
LawBecause thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahShe considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Proverbs
WisdomThat they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs
WisdomFor he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhy doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
Mark
GospelsThe great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
John
GospelsOr saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesOnce have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
Numbers
Law / MosesA wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
Joshua
HistorySo Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
Judges
HistoryBut I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.