If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psalms
PoetryFor out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Matthew
GospelsIf thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Proverbs
WisdomBut Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobI am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms
PoetryTherefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exodus
LawThe vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Micah
Minor ProphetsIf he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Genesis
Law / MosesOf whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
Genesis
LawYour carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.