As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
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And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis
LawFor his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Job
WisdomFor what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelI will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesGreat is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Psalms
PoetryGod having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAccording to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis
LawWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Matthew
GospelsAnd God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.