Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
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For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhat then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
Exodus
LawAnd Job answered and said,
Job
WisdomNow David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLet thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThey also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawFor what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark
GospelsAnd it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke
GospelsBehold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Deuteronomy
LawThere is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
John
GospelsAnd Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Genesis
LawThen Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
John
GospelsLift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.