Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThat all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
Ruth
History / SamuelTake of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahCry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsFor out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Matthew
GospelsHowbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWho can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
Exodus
LawThese are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
Numbers
LawWhoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs
WisdomBut they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
John
GospelsAnd thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesConsider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsHe answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThat the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThese things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
John
GospelsAnd base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: