They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
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For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
Genesis
LawThe poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
Proverbs
WisdomWere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
Acts
HistoryAnd say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawAnd the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
Deuteronomy
LawFor I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonDeal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
Numbers
LawIt may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Luke
GospelsThus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Genesis
Law / MosesYea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;