As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
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Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
John
GospelsAnd he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSix of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
Exodus
Law / MosesHis scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job
WisdomHe shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Psalms
PoetryBut he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulVerily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
Acts
History / LukeGod forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Genesis
LawHave respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.