But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos
Minor ProphetsStrengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhy dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Job
Wisdom / JobObserve thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus
Law / MosesThere were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Revelation
ApocalypticThey say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
1 Samuel
HistoryIf I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job
WisdomWoe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsBut with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownIf ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
John
GospelsThe earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryA man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Matthew
GospelsThen the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
Acts
HistoryAnd the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.