Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
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Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahEvery raven after his kind;
Leviticus
Law / MosesEdom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnNeither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
Leviticus
LawAnd he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOr have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Job
WisdomAnd the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAccording as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Matthew
GospelsAnd they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
2 Samuel
HistoryNow the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Mark
GospelsAnd thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
Genesis
LawIn the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawAnd God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.