And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Psalms
PoetryThe wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersUntil the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraJerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers
LawHis body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielKenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
1 Chronicles
HistoryIn that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiTake ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNeither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGrace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
2 John
General EpistlesAnd the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
Judges
History / SamuelSo Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Genesis
LawNow when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSo the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?