Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
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Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulMoreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahO turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
Genesis
LawThe way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs
WisdomThe yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Acts
HistoryAnd the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Deuteronomy
LawHe that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.