Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesNaked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLet the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
James
General EpistlesAnd David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOf Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
Numbers
LawDestruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2 Peter
General EpistlesThen said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
Ruth
History / SamuelThou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Psalms
PoetryFor what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterNevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
1 Samuel
HistoryEven of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSave only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulShew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
Ezra
History / EzraIf I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;