For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
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Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistoryBehold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsJesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
John
GospelsYea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
Acts
History / LukeFor what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThat he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesFor verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
Matthew
GospelsNow the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielPray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Exodus
LawAnd hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
Luke
Gospels / LukeCan the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.