And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
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And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Luke
GospelsAnd the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTheir heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahO Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Psalms
PoetryNow I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBut when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
Matthew
GospelsAnd now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhich was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
Psalms
PoetryAnd the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
Ruth
HistoryAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Genesis
Law / MosesThey said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
John
GospelsAs for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!