And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
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When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThere is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
Exodus
LawAnd I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Job
WisdomFor thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Acts
HistoryWhat is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job
WisdomAnd the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
LawHe is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBlessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBe ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIf Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
Acts
HistoryIn whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John
Gospels / JohnThe heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?