A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
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And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
Joshua
HistorySo then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTo them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesYe are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOf the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
LawWhen thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Matthew
GospelsI even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
Ezra
HistoryAnd they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
John
GospelsAnd Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Genesis
LawAnd Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Judges
History / SamuelThe seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSalute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahSave me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms
PoetryHe hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTake us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.