A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
Exodus
Law / MosesSeven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahO Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
Luke
Gospels / LukeShall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles
HistoryA new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John
GospelsFor this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Matthew
GospelsThen said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLet not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesTherefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?
Mark
Gospels / MarkShe hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Mark
GospelsInsomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job
Wisdom / JobTo bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.