But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
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He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
Job
WisdomNeither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
Judges
HistoryMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Psalms
PoetryWhen Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
John
GospelsHave mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
2 Samuel
HistoryWith kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
John
Gospels / JohnLet the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThen drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeJosiah 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
History / JeremiahHuz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
Genesis
Law / MosesEvery one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms
PoetryBut I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
2 Kings
HistoryWe heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIn the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
Judges
HistoryThen the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
2 Kings
HistoryThere is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWhere are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.