Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus
LawYet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah
HistoryNevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Exodus
LawThen said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
Esther
History / MordecaiHe maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Psalms
PoetryHer Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Matthew
GospelsThus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahServing the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Acts
HistoryThey came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Psalms
PoetryFor we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBehold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahEvery way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Proverbs
WisdomThou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.