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For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDamascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job
WisdomThey deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
John
Gospels / JohnHow long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
2 Kings
HistoryThou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
Exodus
LawAnd I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesYe shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThen we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.