And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
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Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAfter him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahCharity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job
Wisdom / JobEven as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesBut he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
1 Kings
HistoryBy long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Proverbs
WisdomTo him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYe are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
Luke
Gospels / Luke(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Acts
HistoryLet them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Psalms
PoetryFor I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
Judges
History / SamuelThe works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Psalms
PoetryFor the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
Deuteronomy
LawWherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: