And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBlessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Matthew
GospelsAnd I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPeter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Acts
HistoryThorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonPleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
Luke
GospelsBut Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownDig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
Acts
HistoryAnd at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesBut there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.