The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
John
GospelsWilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Psalms
PoetryFor the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John
Gospels / JohnThen the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
John
Gospels / JohnBut he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job
WisdomAfter my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job
WisdomFor these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Exodus
LawTurn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis
LawUnderstand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
Deuteronomy
LawThese things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
John
GospelsNot in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luke
GospelsI have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWatch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;