And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
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For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers
Law / MosesAll the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesCursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawThe young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Luke
GospelsAnd the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Luke
Gospels / LukeYet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSaying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Matthew
GospelsBut the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawLet the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Job
WisdomMy servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.