He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
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For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2 Peter
General EpistlesYea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job
Wisdom / JobIt is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs
WisdomThen said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
John
GospelsHe shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges
HistoryAnd truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
Luke
GospelsAnd he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanConsider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalms
PoetryThe righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers
Law / MosesSaying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
Hebrews
General EpistlesLaadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew
GospelsBe ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Esther
HistoryA third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Genesis
LawI will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryThe priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.