For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job
WisdomThen took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
Ruth
History / SamuelIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mark
GospelsAnd he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd there was great joy in that city.
Acts
History / Luke(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy
LawThere is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Job
WisdomAnd Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt not kill.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThe firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
Matthew
GospelsTake with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy
LawAdd iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.