Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
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So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahPrinces shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
Genesis
LawWherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
Exodus
Law / MosesBe thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBehold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Luke
GospelsThey answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
Psalms
PoetryLest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Numbers
LawAnd all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
John
GospelsAnd all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
Exodus
LawHe esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.