And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Hebrews
General EpistlesSo Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Mark
GospelsFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Deuteronomy
LawThe transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms
PoetryThen she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Genesis
LawFor it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke
GospelsFor I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawHave all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAll the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesThere be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: