If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
Acts
HistoryAnd thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges
HistorySing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonForasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
Acts
History / LukeAnd the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkO keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Psalms
PoetryBecause it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterFor thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhen the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawOur fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
John
GospelsAnd Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?