And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
Numbers
Law / MosesO Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsSo 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
History / EzraTheir blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryHide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms
PoetryThen David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Genesis
LawAnd they could not answer him again to these things.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
1 Kings
HistoryBecause that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Psalms
PoetryFor the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
John
GospelsGather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaI am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Joshua
HistoryFor the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
Numbers
LawAnd their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesSo they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.