For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs
WisdomHow are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
2 Samuel
HistoryHe keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Genesis
LawThen answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSay thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
1 Kings
HistoryFor my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job
WisdomAccounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBetter is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryFar above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThe land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy
LawJustice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.