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Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
