Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
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Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWoe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Genesis
LawAnd the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Exodus
LawFor through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThat thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job
WisdomBut let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
1 Peter
General EpistlesThe rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Genesis
Law / MosesBut he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHis children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
Matthew
GospelsBut Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?