And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
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And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis
Law / MosesHe was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
John
GospelsWhen righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Proverbs
WisdomHath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen 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 ProphetsThen delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
John
GospelsThe enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis
LawI am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John
GospelsThe son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
Acts
HistoryFor the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
Ezra
HistoryThy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
Solomon's Song
PoetryGod is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumNor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
John
GospelsThe sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: