If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
Judges
HistoryWherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFor now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Exodus
LawWhat shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalms
PoetryMy brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
John
GospelsAnd through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIs not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job
WisdomLest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings
HistoryDoth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraCommand the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Numbers
LawI hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Psalms
PoetryAnd whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
Luke
GospelsFor thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.