But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
Numbers
Law / MosesSo the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
HistorySo Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawThis is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
Leviticus
LawAnd some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
Ezra
HistoryBut thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
Numbers
LawBehold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWithhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMy soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAlso take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Exodus
Law / MosesYour gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
James
General Epistles / JamesBut as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.