Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesTake heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThere shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
Judges
HistoryBehold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnWatch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOut of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Deuteronomy
LawIn the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Proverbs
WisdomHear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
John
GospelsI have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Revelation
ApocalypticTheir bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.