It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
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That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOnly he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
Exodus
LawBut thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Matthew
GospelsAs soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
John
GospelsJohn answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
John
GospelsI have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
1 Kings
HistoryAfter two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Mark
GospelsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Deuteronomy
LawThen said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSeraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLet not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesRemember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.