John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job
WisdomNow therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraEven all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
2 Kings
HistoryFor they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
Ruth
HistoryAnd the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
Numbers
LawThe two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
1 Kings
HistorySo Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
Exodus
LawAnd now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahUpon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.