For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
Luke
GospelsAnd Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke
GospelsAnd he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Matthew
GospelsAll unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
1 John
General EpistlesThen said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
1 Samuel
HistoryCry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation
ApocalypticSo after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
John
Gospels / JohnOf the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
1 Chronicles
HistoryMy soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBrethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesFor he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis
Law / MosesAfter these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.