But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
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And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis
LawWhen I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy
LawThough he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
Psalms
PoetryOf the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Numbers
LawNow when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Acts
HistoryWherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBy night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThat I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
Genesis
LawThen saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
John
Gospels / JohnCursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
Psalms
PoetryManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Leviticus
LawAnd their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
Luke
GospelsFor every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.