And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryUnto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis
LawNow therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
1 Samuel
HistoryJoshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
Esther
History / MordecaiFrom Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
Joshua
History / JoshuaMy people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWoe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd 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
HistoryThe meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThey shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Proverbs
WisdomIt shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Leviticus
LawAnd that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.