And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
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He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
Leviticus
LawWill the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts
History / LukeAnd no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
Exodus
LawIs the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Joshua
HistoryAnd when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
1 Samuel
HistoryFor he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Deuteronomy
LawIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
John
Gospels / JohnThe fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
Joshua
History / JoshuaOne of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.