For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:
Acts
History / LukeAnd thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when Moses heard that, he was content.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Samuel
HistorySave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMake thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis
LawQuicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAsk ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Genesis
LawI say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Proverbs
WisdomThen went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.