And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Genesis
LawAnd Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
Daniel
Major ProphetsTo receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
Luke
GospelsHow much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Job
WisdomBrethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
Leviticus
LawTherefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAlso of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryWhen I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
2 Kings
HistoryO generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew
GospelsWherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBe not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
Genesis
Law / MosesThat they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.