Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis
LawAnd when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Acts
HistoryThen all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew
GospelsMoreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahO Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus
LawAnd might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraMy heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryJesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.