The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
Judges
HistoryAnd he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
Judges
HistoryAnd if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Acts
History / LukeBut if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus
LawNow the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Genesis
LawThey shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Job
WisdomAnd when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
Acts
HistoryWho can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHave all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMany a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.