Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis
Law / MosesBecause they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms
PoetryAnd look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhich maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Job
WisdomAnd the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
Daniel
Major ProphetsNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Judges
HistoryBut by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
Matthew
GospelsAnd God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.