It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsIf the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy
LawOnly the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
Mark
GospelsFor this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Judges
History / SamuelWas returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
Acts
History / LukeI have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAfter him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
Nehemiah
HistoryTherefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
Exodus
LawAnd they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah
Minor ProphetsBut even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Luke
GospelsThen said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
John
Gospels / JohnI do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.