And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
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And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
Luke
GospelsFor thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Hebrews
General EpistlesNevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
John
GospelsAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahShall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
Job
WisdomThy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
Micah
Minor ProphetsRighteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
Exodus
LawI have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
Leviticus
LawBehold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Luke
GospelsAnd we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMoreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahPaul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus
LawAnd I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.