I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
Exodus
Law / MosesHe shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Numbers
Law / MosesHe saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
Matthew
GospelsIf men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBefore the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
Genesis
LawWhile the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTake fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryThe king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
Psalms
PoetryHer prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsPharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges
HistoryThen said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.