For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
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And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
Deuteronomy
LawBut as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsLest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Acts
History / LukeThen Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Exodus
LawNow therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAlso I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Ezra
HistoryLet us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsYet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBe thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGive ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
Luke
GospelsYet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Matthew
GospelsWhen I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.