And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
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In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
Ezra
HistoryThen will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBecause there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Job
WisdomThen answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
Matthew
GospelsFor he that is dead is freed from sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
Joshua
HistorySo shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
2 Samuel
HistoryI came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke
GospelsBut who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
Numbers
LawAnd when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
Esther
History / MordecaiEgypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
Esther
HistoryRebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Psalms
PoetryNow after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges
History / SamuelHe shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Psalms
PoetryAnd under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.