Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
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Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesDid not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Genesis
Law / MosesThe LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
1 Samuel
HistoryThen the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers
LawAnd if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
2 Samuel
HistoryAm I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhich of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Acts
History / LukeFor what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomShall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Exodus
LawIf I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
John
Gospels / JohnFor thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryAnd let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAll thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Acts
HistoryAnd the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.