And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
Ezra
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
LawSee then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWe will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
Psalms
PoetrySay not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
Proverbs
WisdomMy tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms
PoetryBut he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesRehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra
History / EzraThe bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHis sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Job
WisdomNow the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
Luke
GospelsWhom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
1 Chronicles
HistoryLest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.