Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
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And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
Genesis
LawLo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
Job
Wisdom / JobElihu also proceeded, and said,
Job
WisdomIf any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThen the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy
LawTill I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBy which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulO give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
Psalms
PoetryBuild ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Amos
Minor ProphetsA foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Matthew
GospelsLet it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
Deuteronomy
LawI have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiSo Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
Joshua
HistoryBeing justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: