I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
Mark
GospelsFrom Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
Deuteronomy
LawDivers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Job
WisdomHe hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalms
PoetryNow Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Exodus
Law / MosesThy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges
HistoryAnd Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
John
GospelsHow shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMadmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAt that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.