And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Matthew
GospelsSaying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Psalms
PoetryThen the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Genesis
LawAnd Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job
WisdomAnd that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesEven so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesTill we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTheir meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
LawFor though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThis thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: