Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
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For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesMy fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job
Wisdom / JobAs soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
John
GospelsAnd Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Judges
HistoryThey that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFor whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Luke
GospelsFor thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms
PoetryFor the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesSurely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms
PoetryWhen ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
Judges
History / SamuelThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSo when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawNeither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
Acts
HistoryBut he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job
Wisdom / JobHast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielTurn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.