For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
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And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Numbers
LawThat thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraThat I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNow it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Psalms
PoetryThis is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John
GospelsThis is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Acts
History / LukeAnd saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
John
Gospels / JohnMoab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Psalms
PoetryThere is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
1 Samuel
HistoryWe give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesTo fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulRemember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, A certain man had two sons:
Luke
GospelsAnd I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exodus
LawFor he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYe shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.