For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Mark
Gospels / MarkForbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhile the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis
Law / MosesI said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahShe riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
Psalms
PoetryYe shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew
GospelsAnd they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job
WisdomWhatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
Acts
HistoryMy bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job
WisdomAnd they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
Law / MosesI charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.