And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
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Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulOf the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis
LawWrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
Ezra
History / EzraBut speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
2 Samuel
HistoryThese were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIf they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahA new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John
Gospels / JohnRestore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Exodus
Law / MosesThe heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThe thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.