But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
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And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exodus
LawThen the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
Ezra
HistoryThus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Psalms
PoetryThey have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
Psalms
PoetryThough thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
Leviticus
LawAnd the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges
History / SamuelLie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
Acts
History / LukeThe heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
Matthew
GospelsBut Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis
LawIt is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHave the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
Genesis
LawFor this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mark
GospelsAnd Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.