Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
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And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
John
GospelsSurely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
Job
WisdomAnd he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanMy soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJosiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2 Kings
HistoryBut Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
Acts
HistoryNow there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Acts
HistoryThen spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
Leviticus
LawAnd he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Psalms
PoetryViolence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis
LawThey go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
Psalms
PoetryFor consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownTo whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLike a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.