The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
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And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
Luke
Gospels / LukeHer princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
Leviticus
LawAnd Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanJarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Joshua
HistoryAnd he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis
Law / MosesThey are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Job
WisdomThese are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFrom Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
Joshua
HistoryThe ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
Exodus
LawThou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGod hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Numbers
Law / MosesMattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: