The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryAlso of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
Exodus
LawThey say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
Matthew
GospelsAfter this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2 Kings
HistoryBut sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,
Mark
Gospels / MarkMy foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Genesis
LawFor every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Proverbs
WisdomThen cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryThat your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawA light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis
LawAnd they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
Acts
HistoryMeats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: