For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
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For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Job
WisdomDo thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWill ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
Numbers
LawBut thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut Solomon built him an house.
Acts
HistoryUnto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBe not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
Luke
GospelsThus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are our's in possession:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
Judges
HistoryThen said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThat they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
Luke
GospelsTo him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
John
GospelsAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.