The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.
Genesis
LawThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHis servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
Esther
History / MordecaiThen answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
John
GospelsThese things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
Exodus
LawAnd the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts
HistoryMine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahArt not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Acts
History / LukeWho knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Joel
Minor ProphetsConfounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
Psalms
PoetryThe wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIn their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.