For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
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Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms
PoetryJesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Matthew
GospelsYe are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBehold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
Acts
HistoryAll the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThat we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
Numbers
LawBut these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job
WisdomAnd they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
1 Kings
HistoryThen shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryThe just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.