For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
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And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSend me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawAnd Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Judges
History / SamuelThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
History / EzraBut as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis
LawAs many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahLest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Hebrews
General EpistlesI have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI will therefore chastise him, and release him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWho then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Matthew
GospelsThey shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThere was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.