And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThis is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Esther
HistoryI was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBeing enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahI wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYe also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.
Genesis
LawThen all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
Judges
History / SamuelNow when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
Acts
HistoryAnd Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
1 Kings
HistoryBy much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.