And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
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And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
Numbers
Law / MosesEven so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Genesis
Law / MosesYe offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges
History / SamuelWhile the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Judges
History / SamuelThe LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
Psalms
PoetryHe that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
John
Gospels / JohnBut he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
John
GospelsAnd it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.