For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Luke
GospelsAnd Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
2 Samuel
HistoryNow if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesOpen thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalms
PoetryNow it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahRemove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Proverbs
WisdomBut the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
Leviticus
LawThe wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Proverbs
WisdomShe said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
Acts
HistoryThat we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
Genesis
LawAnd if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exodus
LawBut the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhen Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Genesis
LawThe voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.