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They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:
If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
