It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
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Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraElse what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
1 Kings
HistoryThen thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Job
WisdomNow in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:
Luke
Gospels / LukeKnowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Job
Wisdom / JobBut whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John
Gospels / JohnWherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Acts
HistoryMoreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Genesis
LawGo, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Numbers
LawHe that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra
HistoryAnd some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Acts
History / LukeFor out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.