Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
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Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew
GospelsHe hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job
Wisdom / JobI acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBehold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Deuteronomy
LawThen I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
Ezra
HistoryBut the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
Acts
HistoryAll that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
Numbers
LawUnto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Acts
HistoryAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
HistoryMy God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Ezra
HistoryBuild ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Psalms
PoetryIn those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsProphesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mark
GospelsEphraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsFor I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.