If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
John
Gospels / JohnHast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
Judges
History / SamuelAll these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThese are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Genesis
Law / MosesKnow now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Job
WisdomAnd he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Genesis
LawAnd when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryHis watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryAnd now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms
PoetryBut when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
Ruth
HistoryThis they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Exodus
LawOn the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesWhy do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?