So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFrom mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
Numbers
LawAnd when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
Acts
History / LukeThen shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
Numbers
Law / MosesHis mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalms
PoetryLet every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Job
Wisdom / JobThen all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
Judges
HistoryThen Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
Ruth
HistoryThat in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Judges
HistoryAnd this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
LawThen again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
John
GospelsThe LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua
HistoryOf Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.