Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
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And 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:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Mark
GospelsHe that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Proverbs
WisdomSo king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhich are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThere went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Acts
History / Luke(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
Numbers
LawCast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
Joshua
HistoryHe sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
Job
WisdomEven the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: