Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
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These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy
LawHe hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job
WisdomPeter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
John
Gospels / JohnThen 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
GospelsDepart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Judges
HistoryThey sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
Acts
History / LukeI will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Psalms
PoetryAs the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John
Gospels / JohnHear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIf ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John
GospelsAnd he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesDeliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
John
GospelsThen said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelI came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.