As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
Numbers
LawWhen he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Judges
History / SamuelHelez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBe thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
2 Kings
HistoryBut yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
Numbers
LawAnd when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus
Law / MosesMine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
Acts
HistoryAnd they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Mark
GospelsAnd thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYour lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Leviticus
LawWho then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHow is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesDo ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.