Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
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I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
Exodus
LawTherefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luke
Gospels / LukePut on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAll the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
Psalms
PoetryFor what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Job
WisdomYe judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
John
GospelsThou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesEither a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
Leviticus
LawHow many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThat word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
Acts
History / LukeSo they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBecause they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Job
WisdomI therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: