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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The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
John
GospelsIt was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThen Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Psalms
PoetryThey did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job
WisdomAnd he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
Genesis
LawAnd the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIf the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
Luke
Gospels / LukeBlessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
1 Kings
HistoryMine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Psalms
PoetryAnd the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
Exodus
Law / MosesThree years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWe have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Solomon's Song
PoetryOf Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.