Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSeparate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
Numbers
Law / MosesWere not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job
Wisdom / JobThey fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Judges
HistoryAnd when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Numbers
LawAnd I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Deuteronomy
LawCanst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job
WisdomAll thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
Luke
GospelsFor this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhich is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.