But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
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Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Nehemiah
HistoryLikewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Judges
History / SamuelFor if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
Solomon's Song
PoetryJesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
John
GospelsAll the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
Exodus
Law / MosesPlead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And they drank, and were merry with him.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsIf then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John
Gospels / JohnBecause thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.