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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Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBut bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
Acts
HistoryThen said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Genesis
LawOthers said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
John
GospelsSo Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
2 Kings
HistoryIn the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis
LawThose by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke
GospelsThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiSo he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesEven a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIf he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsStorehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.