But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGive ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy
LawWhat man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Matthew
GospelsShall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Job
WisdomAnd now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John
GospelsAdded yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesSo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
HistoryAfter this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
John
GospelsBy faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownLo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
Job
WisdomIn that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Luke
GospelsHow long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHis children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.