Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Numbers
LawMy desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBecause the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiIf thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAin, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra
History / EzraWho was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThey shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
Luke
GospelsRob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOnly be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua
HistoryOr for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
Numbers
LawLet my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
Deuteronomy
LawThen David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more: