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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Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Judges
History / SamuelThy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsWhen thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIsh-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Acts
History / LukeAnd at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHe is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThese ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Job
WisdomAnd they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelPure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James
General EpistlesAnd all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
Luke
GospelsGrace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
Exodus
Law / MosesI say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.