And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel
Minor ProphetsHe shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Exodus
LawAnd they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThere was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Luke
GospelsIf we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther
History / MordecaiHe gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy
LawHope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Matthew
GospelsIt is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
Judges
HistoryAnd now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Genesis
LawAnd when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThese ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Job
Wisdom / JobJesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.