And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
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Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThe beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Nehemiah
HistoryAs he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIn thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.
Judges
HistoryThus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Genesis
LawThe cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
Leviticus
LawAnd when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
Matthew
GospelsThen the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraOf the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
Ezra
History / EzraFor even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHappy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: