And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
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When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Psalms
PoetryGreat peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus
LawYet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAll nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
Numbers
LawWilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIf these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
Numbers
LawAnd he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesVerily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
John
GospelsIf thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
Acts
History / LukeAnd whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBecause Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
1 Kings
HistoryHe shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.