And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
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For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Psalms
PoetryOnly the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
Job
WisdomCome against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsIn those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers
LawAnd this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBy faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Hebrews
General EpistlesSo all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus
Law / MosesIt is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis
LawFor for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhich is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis
LawHilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMoreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryVerily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.