If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
Genesis
LawBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielYet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThat there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
Judges
HistoryIt shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
John
GospelsAnd out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraEsther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
Esther
HistoryAnd the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
Revelation
ApocalypticIt is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis
LawAnd from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
Joshua
HistoryBut he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWe have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThe whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Job
WisdomThen sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
John
GospelsLet him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Proverbs
Wisdom(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAll the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.