And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
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Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryHow goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
Acts
HistoryHe made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Psalms
PoetryHow is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Matthew
GospelsAnd as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThese words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
2 Kings
HistoryThou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
WisdomSo David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Psalms
PoetryWhat advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThere came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.