And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
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For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhen I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
Exodus
LawAnd it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Psalms
PoetryIt is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
John
Gospels / JohnTake of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielA merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs
WisdomBut I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job
WisdomNow they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mark
GospelsHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesDavid therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAs I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Job
Wisdom / JobNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth
History / SamuelFor they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.