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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him.
Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
