But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
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For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John
Gospels / JohnThe blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
Acts
HistoryThus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIn the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Esther
HistoryAnd the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
Exodus
LawWilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Psalms
PoetryAnd that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
Genesis
LawNevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThere were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
John
GospelsAnd Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
Exodus
LawThen hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
Numbers
Law / MosesMy soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.