The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
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And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTo make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
Mark
GospelsThen Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
2 Kings
HistoryArise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
Psalms
PoetryFor it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Acts
HistoryAnd he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIt is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo 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.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
Genesis
LawAnd their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSimon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
John
GospelsNot to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts
HistoryWe made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHonour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Exodus
Law / MosesImmediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Acts
HistoryHe, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Proverbs
WisdomThen cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.