Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
Acts
History / LukeBut a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTo him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
John
Gospels / JohnI even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
Ezra
History / EzraWherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
Mark
GospelsAnd his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job
WisdomKnow ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Judges
History / SamuelO my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAbram; the same is Abraham.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBecause ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
Joel
Minor ProphetsHis servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
LawThe heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Psalms
Poetry / David and others(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
Numbers
LawThe same was in the beginning with God.
John
Gospels / JohnAs he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms
PoetryAn ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.