These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
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Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job
WisdomAnd say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAfter he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
Judges
HistoryBut Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
Numbers
Law / MosesTremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms
PoetryAnd, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBehold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThis twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Genesis
LawHave respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsRemember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
Deuteronomy
LawNow therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.