For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
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Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, I am Abraham's servant.
Genesis
LawThen they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
Job
Wisdom / JobThe enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Esther
HistoryWhen I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
Judges
HistoryAnd they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
Luke
GospelsThou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukWhy dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukSaying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOf righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
John
Gospels / JohnIf thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThen she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
Ruth
History / SamuelBut if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.